Subject: [6lowpan] Apologies for lack of microphone etiquette

From: Carsten Bormann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:11:05 +0200

We have to apologize to the ~20 remote participants in todays meeting.
We weren't able to maintain microphone etiquette during the 6lowpan meeting.
There were 106 people "in" the room (that's the number that made it through the lines at the door to the blue sheets).
In addition, the room itself was pretty tightly packed with chairs/furniture, so it was really hard to get around to the microphone without stepping on other attendees.  There was no way to have an efficient discussion without sidestepping the microphones occasionally.

If we really want to use meeting rooms with so little space for movement, we need microphones that can be handed around.
But we didn't even have a wireless microphone for the presenter (in fact, no arrangements were made at all to have a person speaking in front of the slides).  So the presenter got the chairs' mike, which in turn made it hard to manage the discussion.

I hope we can get better arrangements for the following meetings at IETF78.

Gruesse, Carsten