At 1:49 PM -0700 5/23/06, 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!
We are tentatively scheduled for Wednesday afternoon; see
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/meeting_agenda_html.cgi?meeting_num=66>.
I say "tentatively" because the schedule will probably shift a bit
for the next two weeks; my guess is that we are 80% likely to stay in
the same spot.
I have not received any offers to talk about "Overlap with calendar
formats" or "Overlap with mail" at the BoF, but am still quite
receptive to people making such offers.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium
