For those in the area who plan for bar-BOFs in Prague or at some other meetings in the future - this is a good and important reading.
David Harrington Director, IETF Transport Area [email protected] (preferred for ietf) [email protected] +1 603 828 1401 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 2:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: I-D Action:draft-eggert-successful-bar-bof-01.txt A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Considerations for Having a Successful "Bar BOF" Side Meeting Author(s) : L. Eggert Filename : draft-eggert-successful-bar-bof-01.txt Pages : 8 Date : 2011-01-26 New work is typically brought to the IETF by a group of interested individuals. IETF meetings are a convenient place for such groups to hold informal get-togethers to discuss and develop their ideas. Such side meetings, which are not reflected in the IETF meeting agenda and have no official status, are often half jokingly referred to as "bar BOF" sessions, to acknowledge that some of them may eventually lead to a proposal for an official IETF BOF ("birds of a feather" session) on a given topic. During recent IETF meetings, many such "bar BOF" get-togethers have been organized and moderated in ways that made them increasingly indistinguishable from official IETF BOFs or sometimes even IETF working group meetings. This document argues that this recent trend is not helpful in reaching the ultimate goal of many of these get-togethers, i.e., to efficiently discuss and develop ideas for new IETF work. It encourages the organizers of such side meetings to consider the benefits of holding their get-togethers in much less formal settings, and to also consider alternative means to develop their ideas. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-eggert-successful-bar-bof-01 .t xt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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