The deadline for requesting an official BOF is Monday. The IAB and
IESG are having a bit of discussion of upcoming BOFs this Thursday,
even before the Monday deadline, so it would be good to have an
indication of a possible request ASAP :) If an official BOF does not
come together, there's always Bar BOFs, or even a mini-BOF (pseudo-
BOF?) in the Apps Area meeting which is typically the Monday morning
of IETF week.
I'm also trying to put together some topics of general interest for
the Apps Area open meeting, and there's the HTTP Authentication or
anti-Phishing BOF which has already been requested and should be of
interest to Atom people.
I personally have had a lot of people tell me of interest in Atom
extensions but it's hard to tell if there's a real possibility of the
work items gelling into a charter.
Lisa
On May 23, 2006, at 2:31 PM, James M Snell wrote:
This sounds good so long as we can get the extensions BOF scheduled
the
on the same day as the WG meeting. Also, it would be great if we
could
get together for some face-to-face interop testing before and/or after
the WG meeting.
- James
Paul Hoffman wrote:
Greetings again. The Atompub WG will have our first (and maybe last!)
face-to-face meeting at the upcoming IETF meeting in Montreal at the
beginning of July.
The timing of us having our first WG meeting may seem odd, given the
fact that we completed the Atom format document long ago, and are
making
good progress on the publishing protocol. However, there are reasons
other than "moving documents forwards" for WGs to meet. Lisa
Dusseault,
our Area Director, asked us to have a meeting so that people
active in
the Atompub WG can have more interaction with the IETF, and vice
versa.
There is interest in the Atom format from other WGs, and there may be
interest in the Atom publishing protocol as well.
I propose the following agenda, which should fit well into a one-
hour slot:
- Intro: 10 mins
- Brief overview of protocol status: 10 mins
- Use of Atom format in other WGs: 30 mins
- draft-saintandre-atompub-notify
- Overlap with calendar formats
- Overlap with mail
Note that we are explicitly *not* going to discuss extensions to the
Atom format at this WG meeting because they are not part of the WG
charter. Lisa has said that she may help arrange a BoF session on
creating a new Working Group for Atom extensions, and having at
least a
higher-level discussion of what extensions are out there would be
appropriate in that BoF. But, to use asterisks again, such
discussion is
*not* part of the Atompub WG meeting.
See <http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-66.html> for details about the
IETF meeting. I will let the WG know when there are preliminary and
near-permanent agendas for the meeting. It would be good to meet
some of
you there!
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
