Re: [802SEC] Electronic Participation in Interim Meetings
Mat, Bob, Paul, et all,
I am in violent agreement with Bob. I object to electronic participation in
our face to face meetings for the reasons Bob outlined.
Carl
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> Matthew J. (US SSA)
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 1:17 PM
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> Subject: Re: [802SEC] Electronic Participation in Interim Meetings
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> Hi Bob,
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> Feel free to call me if you want to discuss it in person,
> otherwise I'm happy to conduct a dialogue on the reflector.
> It is a complex topic, and would require a long exchange of
> e-mail I suspect to reach a meeting of the minds.
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> Mat
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> Matthew Sherman, Ph.D.
> Engineering Fellow
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> From: Bob Heile [mailto:bheile@ieee.org]
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 1:07 PM
> To: Sherman, Matthew J. (US SSA); STDS-802-SEC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
> Subject: Re: [802SEC] Electronic Participation in Interim Meetings
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> Mat
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> I am strongly against this. Face to face meetings are the
> most conducive to an effective exchange and debate of ideas.
> Frequent telecons between meetings lets everyone participate
> but the meeting itself should not be compromised. Beyond
> that it sets a dangerous precedent for extending that to Task
> and Working group meetings.
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> Bob
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> At 12:54 PM 1/10/2009 -0500, Sherman, Matthew J. (US SSA) wrote:
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> EC Members,
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> I have received requests from TV Whitespace ECSG members to
> allow electronic participation (teleconference / Webex) for
> the ECSG meetings at the upcoming Wireless Interim in LA. I
> have discussed this with the IEEE 802.11 Chair (Bruce) who
> has no objection, and made sure that appropriate facilities
> are available. I checked with the IEEE 802 chair
> (Paul) who said he would permit electronic participation for
> the ECSG at the interim if it was conducted as an
> 'Experiment' (with hypothesis and
> metrics) to see if it adds clear value to the standards process.
> Accordingly we have formulated a hypothesis and metrics and
> plan to conduct three two hour meetings at the wireless
> interim that include electronic participation, and will
> conduct straw polls at the end of the
> session to see if the metrics support our hypothesis. We
> will make the
> results of this experiment available to the EC at the March
> session, along with other planned outputs from the ECSG.
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> If you have any questions about this, please feel free to contact me.
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> Best Regards,
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> Matthew Sherman
> Chair, IEEE802 Whitespace ECSG
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