[J3] (SC22WG5.6212) October meeting - Go Virtual/Mixed-mode, or be discriminatory

[Steve Lionel]

On 5/2/2020 7:25 PM, Vipul Parekh via J3 wrote:
> It will be highly remiss of both ISO and INCITS to not allow 
> virtual participation in any governance and technical meetings during 
> the rest of 2020 and likely through 2021, or at least until a time the 
> risk assessments with COVID-19 outbreak have been lowered sufficiently 
> and the public heath emergency declarations by international 
> organizations such as W.H.O. and national bodies such as US C.D.C have 
> been lifted.  To not do so will be highly discriminatory against those 
> possible participants who, given their own personal health 
> considerations or of those in their care or environs, are in a "high 
> risk" category.

ISO and INCITS already *allow *virtual participation, so this is not an 
issue. I have already started investigating what we would need to do 
this for the October meeting, should it happen. (I have heard 
suggestions ISO might extend the ban on in-person meetings further.) As 
has been discussed recently, the time zone issue is a real killer for 
WG5, not so much for J3 (except for Malcolm, who is a critical member of 
J3, and lives in Japan.) If nothing else we will need to restructure the 
(largely J3-oriented) schedule we follow that assumes everyone is present.

I had a productive talk the other day with Bryce Lelbach, PL22 chair, on 
how we can acquire the hardware we need to make this work. Both ISO and 
INCITS already offer the software.

Steve


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