Hi all, The call for papers for the relatively famous Free Software Forum is up: http://papers.softwarelivre.org/index.en.html I was wondering if anybody from the IETF was planning to give a talk? If not, I was going to propose a couple of sessions myself (in a non-official, participatory way of course - I don't propose speaking FOR the IETF so to speak): 1. An introduction to the IETF - designed for open source hackers who really need to understand the processes of WGs and RFC creation better, with an intention of getting more developers and technologists involved in the standards processes, as well as the research side of things 2. A round-up of interesting RFCs - most people aren't aware of what RFCs have been published in the last 3-4 years, nor what impact they could have on them. The intention here is to get open source developers interested in turning some of the RFCs that we hoped so much for, into more widely adopted protocols. In effect, an "advert" for some work from the WGs. Thoughts welcome, particularly if the consensus is these talks would be a Bad Idea(tm). -- Paul Robinson