Guidelines for the Organization of Fully Online Meetings
draft-ietf-shmoo-online-meeting-05

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Subject: Document Action: 'Guidelines for the Organization of Fully Online Meetings' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-shmoo-online-meeting-05.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Guidelines for the Organization of Fully Online Meetings'
  (draft-ietf-shmoo-online-meeting-05.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the Stay Home Meet Occasionally Online
Working Group.

The IESG contact person is Lars Eggert.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-shmoo-online-meeting/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   This document provides guidelines for the planning and organization
   of fully online meetings, regarding the number, length, and
   composition of sessions on the meeting agenda.  These guidelines are
   based on the experience with online meetings during the COVID-19
   pandemic.

Working Group Summary

   The working group (WG) consensus on this document represents the broad
   agreement of the group. There was discussion about scope: hybrid versus online
   and the scope was kept narrow to only online meetings. It also does not make
   promises or normative statements. The only major persistent discussion was
   about time zone selection for the meetings and all came to consensus on the
   text that is in the final version.

Document Quality

   The document shepherd has reviewed the latest version of this document and
   believes that this document is needed, clearly written, complete, correctly
   designed, and ready to be handed off for publication. There should be
   virtually zero flags on this document for future reviewers.

Personnel

   Mallory Knodel is the Document Shepherd for this document.
   Lars Eggert is the Responsible Area Director.

RFC Editor Note