Hi,
I agree with Michael Thomas' points.
We may conclude that the Age of Covids will end up a very decreased BoF activity in IETF simply because people's hands are tied.
Regards,
Behcet
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 3:16 AM Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael Thomas <mike@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 :)
I'm not suggesting trying to have the conversation there, but rather, that
it's an important place to find interested parties. To be clear: it's for
the announcement.
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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sandelman Software Works
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