At 14:58 15.12.1997 -0800, Toby Nixon wrote:

At the IMTC VOIP Forum meeting last Friday, Jeff Pulver announced that he has planned next fall's VON conference for the week of September 14-18 in Washington DC. Apparently, he didn't know that there is a Study Group 16 meeting planned for the same time slot. He's really in a bind, though, because of conflicts with other conferences and trade shows, holidays, etc., and is very concerned that key SG16 participants won't be able to attend VON with the current schedule.

What is the SG16 WP2 workload likely to be at that fall '98 meeting? Is it conceivable that we could schedule WP1 and WP3 meetings mostly in the first week, and meetings of WP2 and its questions mostly in the second week, so as to allow for participating in VON?

   -- Toby

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Toby,

to your question...

In my personal opinion WP2 will - as always be - very busy, and occupied with much work. In addition you have to deduct the opening ang closing Plenaries of the WPs and of SG16 (the later one about 1,5-2 days). So, in practice the question is if you can queeze WP2 work in 2,5-3 days (Monday-Wednesday 2nd week), without giving time for preparation of reports, documents, last minutes edits etc. for the closing plenaries.

In my opinion this will be very difficult.

Regards,

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