Steve, John,
I had the exact same thoughts when this email with the announcement
of this "interim meeting" was sent around. I had made travel plans long
time ago, including flight and hotel booking. I would like to
participate
in the Monday morning meeting, if there is any, but I don't know whether
I will be available to find an earlier flight, change my ticket, and
find another
hotel for that one night.
I find this short-term announcement of another important meeting
not acceptable.
Marcus
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John,
For myself, I received this
email two days after booking my flight to arrive Monday morning in SFO
and having booked the meeting hotel beginning from Monday night.
The information about this
meeting session was not presented during the previous meeting in
Geneva, and was not distributed until we had the information that the
meeting hotel is now sold out, so even if I were to spend the money to
change my flight, it is not certain that I could add Sunday night to my
hotel booking.
There is a lot to do, so I
certainly do not object to trying to use the 90 minute slot for
informal discussions to try to figure out how to make progress. But I
do have an objection to calling it an interim meeting of HSSG. I would
request that you refrain from conducting any motions or straw polls as
a part of this session so as not to exclude those who have already
booked their travel from the decision process.
Regards,
Steve
All,
The HSSG will be having an
interim meeting adjacent to and co-located with the IEEE 802 plenary
meeting in July. (Plenary information may be found at http://ieee802.facetoface-events.com/sessions/44/files/announcement.pdf).
We will be getting
together Monday, July 16, 2007 from 9 to 10:30am prior to the July IEEE
802 opening plenary. The agenda for the meeting will be to discuss the
HSSG goals for the Plenary week HSSG meeting. At this time I have been
informed that the meeting room will be Pacific Concourse JK, but it
would be advisable to double check.
Please make your travel
arrangements accordingly.
Best Regards,
John D’Ambrosia
Chair, IEEE 802.3 Higher
Speed Study Group
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