As you will see below, although SIP had intended to take advantage of the infrastructure provided by the Secretariat to have an interim meeting in Malta, that infrastructure has now disappeared.
Therefore there will not be a SIP interim meeting in Malta. We did have support for having both a SIP and SIPPING interim meetings, and some work to address to an interim. We could still have an interim meeting if we could find someone to provide a location. However time is getting pretty short to do this. If you have any ideas in this regard then please contact us. regards Keith -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russ Housley Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 3:59 PM To: Working Group Chairs Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WG Interim Meeting Opportunity in January 2009 WG Chairs: Thanks for all of the valuable input. The IAOC has just taken a vote, and the Malta Large Interim Meeting Experiment in January 2009 is not going to take place. The primarily reason for this decision is the number of people that are able to commit to on-site participation. The total number of people that indicated that they would attend is less than 60. That does not qualify as a large Interim Meeting. With this level of participation, we will not learn the things that we had hoped from the experiment. Please direct anyone that purchased a non-refundable airline ticket for the proposed Malta meeting to me. The IESG may revisit the idea of a Large Interim Meeting Experiment in the future. At this point, it is unclear when travel budgets will make this a viable experiment. I encourage WG chars to experiment with virtual interim meetings. Guidance about interim meetings can be found at http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/Interim-meetings.txt Thanks for all you do for the IETF and the Internet, Russ At 03:33 PM 10/16/2008, IETF Chair wrote: >In our continuing effort to ensure that IETF WGs are getting enough >meeting time to progress their work, we are conducting another experiment. > Many WGs have found interim meetings an effective way to tackle >thorny technical issues, resolve contentious technical issues, >accelerate standards development, and provide traction for new work. >As always, an interim WG meeting is not a substitute for a regular >session at the traditional IETF meeting. Since some WG Chairs and ADs >have found the amount of time necessary to put together an interim >meeting can be excessive, we are trying to reduce the effort necessary >to conduct an interim meeting to determine whether reducing this burden >will expedite IETF standards development. To this end, the Secretariat >will facilitate a large interim meeting from 20-22 January 2009 in >Malta. If you are interested in participating in this experiment, >please contact your Area Director for approval. All face-to-face >interim meetings require AD approval, and this is no exception. The >IETF Secretariat is putting together a program with three full days and >four tracks on each day. Each WG interim meeting is expected to >consume at least one full day on one of the tracks. > >ADs will schedule the sessions. A URL for the schedule will be >announced shortly. Once it is available, if you detect a scheduling >conflict, please raise the concern with your AD for resolution. >Session time is limited, and sessions will be allocated first come, first served. > >The Secretariat will provide registration, food and beverage, audio >visual facilities, and on site registration support. VeriLAN will >provide network and audio streaming support. It is expected that the >meeting fee will be $375 for early registration and $475 for late registration. > >The Internet Society is looking for meeting sponsors for this event. >Anyone interested please contact Drew Dvorshak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > >Russ _______________________________________________ Sip mailing list https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sip This list is for NEW development of the core SIP Protocol Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions on current sip Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for new developments on the application of sip
