Hi all,


We currently have a practical problem.  Given the constraints people mailed me, using the language of "I can make" vs. "I prefer," we have meeting times that end on a Thursday no later than 13:00 UTC.  But for people in California, that is an ending at 06:00 AM, which would mean a start time of 04:30, which is obviously not so good.


So I've started over with a "when available" calendar broken down in 30 minute increments between Tuedays and Thursdays.  I thin I have arranged this on the following principles:


  1.  Where people's normal home TZ is, they should never have to attend a meeting starting any earlier than 05:30 (arguably, that alone is worthy of criminal prosecution, but the California-EU times problem is well-known).
  2. Where people's normal home TX is, they should never have to be in a meeting after 19:30.

The when available calendar is at https://whenavailable.com/invite/0kWuUfcN6XOLFJhD2h5G.  Please fill this urgently (it says it closes on Tuesday but, obviously, it'll be much easier to set a meeting time with more advance time).  If you can't make a given slot next week but you _normally_ could, please just mark it as available and we can work out regrets for the specific meeting later.

I think this illustrates part of the problem we are going to face, so I'm going to adopt the traditional IETF rule governing meeting decisions: decisions might be taken at a meeting, but they are formally approved on the mailing list.

Thanks,
A


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