[RPRWG] Presentations for the Austin Meeting

Here came my Thursday evening, which is the last day in my working week, and no presentation is yet available on the Web site for the meeting next week. No material from the different teams that announced intentions to work on proposals from San Jose until now is available, with the exception of the T&D team documents. For me, and other people coming from my area this means that we will not see these materials before Monday morning - with the exception of the presentations of the people who did the 'wrong thing' and sent their presentations to the whole list.

I tried to make a motion in a previous meeting about presentations being made available in advance for review and examination. Unfortunately, the motion did not make it. I will try to make a case again for providing the material in advance:

There is no reason why a serious technical material cannot be made available one week, or at least three days in advance to a meeting - at least in a preliminary form. (Does anybody really believe that a material prepared at the last moment, sometimes during the flight to a meeting can be solid enough for a serious technical standards work?)

The current system puts an unfair handicap on individuals who already made relatively higher efforts in traveling from remote locations to attend the IEEE meetings

The situation seems to me even more serious before this meeting, when we will be required to vote on some important decisions.

Regards,

Dan