[mat-wg] Joint interim meeting, MAT WG + IRTF MAPRG, Wednesday 5 August

Hi Brian and Nina,

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 8:30 PM Brian Trammell (RIPE)
<ietf+ripe at trammell.ch> wrote:
> We've also decided to try [..] organizing
> something that would be difficult-to-impossible
> to do without heavy logistical lifting for the
> in-person meeting: holding a joint meeting
> with the IRTF's [..] (MAP) Research Group.

I believe this is an excellent decision.  Let's see how it goes, maybe
it would become a good practice for other working groups.

> We've heard disappointment from some
> of you about our decision to opt out of
> having a virtual meeting at RIPE 80.

Not me, for the record.  I personally started to think that large
virtual events don't bring in a lot of sense.

Take IETF: maybe half of the WGs I participate in are just skipping
the (costly for some) IETF 108, opting for free-of-charge virtual
interim calls instead.  E.g. dnsop had two or maybe three interims
throughout the spring and summer.

The change in the format of the WG collaboration, like the one MAT WG
would be experimenting with in August, IMO is either necessary, or
inevitable, or both.

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Töma