Subject: Chicago meeting; alternative room setup

From: "Eggert, Lars" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:50:25 +0000

Hi folks,

if you've looked at the agenda, you see that we're currently scheduled for Thursday, March 30, 2017 in the
9:00-11:30 Thursday Morning slot. As always, this may still move.

One thing to note is that we're likely going to be participating in the "alternative room layout" experiment. Unlike in the regular IETF "classroom" seating arrangement, this room will have a conference or U-shape table up front, with space for about 30 people. It will also have classroom-style seating for about another 120.

The idea of the experiment is to get away from the mic-line-statement-style of interaction, to a more free-flowing discussion the table, which hopefully will allow for better communication and faster progress.

If you are a regular participant, please do sit at the conference table, no need to ask. This obviously includes our document editors, folks in the "contributors" team on GitHub, but also everyone else who expects to comment on things. If you're in doubt whether you should sit at the table, sit at the table.

There will obviously still be the regular floor mics, and all contributions carry the same weight and will be recognized in the same way. The conference table setup is simply an experiment to see if a different kind of room arrangement would better suit certain WGs.

Please do let the chairs and ADs know afterwards if you felt like the experiment worked out or not, and why!

Lars

PS: There is also a QUIC Tutorial on Sunday afternoon. If you are new to QUIC, I highly suggest attending that before coming to the WG meeting.