It would be useful if those present were familiar with the previous work in METAD and FIND as well as the citations given in the BoF agenda.
By the way, the old FIND charter and documents are listed here:
http://www.ietf.org./html.charters/OLD/find-charter.html
and METAD mailing list archives are at:
http://www.usrlocalsrc.org/bunyip/metad.archive/
regards, Ted Hardie