On 5/11/20 4:14 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
Michael Thomas <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's been my impression that a substantial amount of the work for
> putting together BoF's, etc has been done loosely and informally
> usually in the setting of a meeting and drinking beers with others (aka
> bar BoF). Since we seem to be doing neither neither these days, from
> what I can tell this list is the closest to that in purpose. Yet since
> it's ietf-wide it includes lots of different areas and interests it's
> easy to see how the signal to noise ratio might get bad in a
I agree that ietf@xxxxxxxx is a good starting point, but I think one needs to
take a bit of a shotgun to a half-dozen other MLs to let people know you are
thinking of something. ietf@xxxxxxxx is not universally read, alas.
Also making use of Any-of-Other-Business section of other virtual interims to
talk briefly about things. I wouldn't be afraid of babbling about such
things in the jabber, DURING (virtual) meetings, but also in hallway@
You mean wg ml's? Often that is the *last* place I'd want to bring
something new up and from my experience the feeling is mutual :) And
it's probably just as well that ietf@ is not universally participated in
because it wouldn't scale if it became the new go-to place to do this.
Jabber or other forms of conferencing might be a vehicle for having the
virtual bof, but it requires some sort of announcement. Iirc (it's been
a while), these bar bofs are usually announced on a bulletin board where
people can scan it for interesting stuff. So while bar bof's are
informal, it's definitely in the ietf universe.
Our new tradition of "dispatch" areas is also a good thing.
Dispatch areas?
People write drafts, and it might be that intentionally invoking Cunningham's
Law is a good idea.
Heh :)
Mike
