Re: Interim meeting around London?

I like Patrick's point. My inclination is that if we need time to
discuss actual stuff, we should schedule (c). But for interop reasons,
a short (do we even need a full day?) meeting around London might be
good.

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Patrick McManus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I'm in favor of a short meeting simply because our cadence of interims and
> their implicit deadlines was worked well - it has provided incentives to
> keep the development efforts moving. As evidence I can cite 5 requests in
> the last few days for updated firefox draft -09 builds for folks to test
> with. That's great - its working. keep going. regular ietf weeks don't
> provide the same incentive.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> We’ve previously talked about the possibility of another interim meeting
>> piggybacking upon IETF London, much as we did for Berlin/Hamburg.
>>
>> Since there are only about four weeks between our Zurich interim and
>> London, and we haven’t had our Zurich meeting yet, it’s not clear how useful
>> that meeting would be.
>>
>> One the one hand, we’re trying to finish the “core” specification soon,
>> and it would be good to keep velocity up and close any lingering issues
>> around the spec. On the other, the small gap between meetings means that
>> it’s unlikely we’ll have big spec or implementation updates to
>> discuss/interop.
>>
>> Ideally, we’d decide *after* Zurich, but that would make the travel and
>> meeting planning cycle really tight.
>>
>> I think the options are roughly:
>>
>> a) Feb 26-28 or 27-28 in London (avoiding overlap with the STRINT workshop
>> as necessary)
>> b) Mar 8 in London (one-day Saturday meeting to clean up any dangling
>> issues)
>> c) Wait until April or June, if necessary, location TBD
>>
>> If we did (b), I’d request that the HTTPbis meeting during IETF be late in
>> the week, to make people’s travel a bit more convenient.
>>
>> I’d be interested to hear what people think. Note that this is not a vote
>> :)
>>
>> --
>> Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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