Re: [RPRWG] Presentations for the Austin Meeting
Dan,
Obviously it is unfortunate that you, and people from EMEA
are not able to review the material prior to the meeting.
However, this is a democratic organization and you need
to get a passing vote to change the proceedures.
You are certainly free to make the motion again and I
encourage another debate on the topic.
With regard to voting at this meeting, I believe it is
reasonable to delay voting until later in the week
to allow people time to review the documents.
cheers,
mike
> "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Here came my Thursday evening, which is the last day in my working week, and no presentation is
> yet available on the Web site for the meeting next week. No material from the different teams that
> announced intentions to work on proposals from San Jose until now is available, with the exception
> of the T&D team documents. For me, and other people coming from my area this means that we will
> not see these materials before Monday morning - with the exception of the presentations of the
> people who did the 'wrong thing' and sent their presentations to the whole list.
>
> I tried to make a motion in a previous meeting about presentations being made available in advance
> for review and examination. Unfortunately, the motion did not make it. I will try to make a case
> again for providing the material in advance:
>
> * There is no reason why a serious technical material cannot be made available one week, or at
> least three days in advance to a meeting - at least in a preliminary form. (Does anybody
> really believe that a material prepared at the last moment, sometimes during the flight to a
> meeting can be solid enough for a serious technical standards work?)
> * The current system puts an unfair handicap on individuals who already made relatively higher
> efforts in traveling from remote locations to attend the IEEE meetings
>
> The situation seems to me even more serious before this meeting, when we will be required to vote
> on some important decisions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
>
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