Dear Colleagues,
One of my action times resulting from the discussion of remote attendance was to begin a discussion of our objectives for enabling remote participation in face-to-face meetings. Having a clear idea of the objectives should help us in deciding on how to support remote participation.
To kick off discussion, some possible objectives are:
- Enable remote participation from subject matter experts - especially when they are needed for a targeted discussion that isn't long enough to justify travel For example:
- Consideration maintenance item where people who worked on that portion of the standard aren't attending.
- A topic that needs coordination with experts from an other organization
- Participation by those who can attend some but not all meetings.
- Participation in off-cycle interims - sometimes subgroups hold an extra interim to do comment resolution of recirculations or to get extra meeting time.
- Outreach to people who can't attend meetings - e.g. to the developing world, to academics, etc. (this is one of the reasons that IETF does remote participation.
Please suggest objectives I've missed and comment on which objectives are most important.
Regards,
Pat