2nd call for participation. Changes: new date (11/3), link to draft agenda.
Do you have an idea, problem space, or proposal that IETFers should hear about?
Do you want to propose IETF or IRTF work but aren’t sure if your idea is ready or who will be interested?
Agenda requests are now being accepted for the Request for Conversation (HotRFC) lightning talk session. Presenters will submit a 4 minute video to make their case for collaboration. Interested folks can continue the discussion online. Goals include encouraging brainstorming conversations, helping new work proposals find collaborators, raising awareness of relevant work going on elsewhere, and promoting BarBoFs. Past HotRFC topics covered a broad range of topics:
Collaboration: proposals for new standards work or new research topics that haven't been discussed elsewhere, potentially relevant research that may be ready for the IETF
Notification: new topics on the agenda in a working group or research group, cross-area IETF work
Enlightenment: updates on relevant technologies, industry advances that could affect IETF participants.
With strict time limits, concise talks will give viewers a sense of whether they’d like to know more and, importantly, coordinates on how to do so.
We’re going to try to preserve the value of this session while adapting it to a fully online meeting and leveraging the virtual-world capabilities of Gather. Keep in mind this is an experiment and feedback is welcome to improve it should we be in this situation again. With that as prologue, here is how we’ll do it this time:
- To request a slot, submit a short abstract to hotrfc@xxxxxxxx no later than October 29, 2400 UTC that includes the following
- Talk title
- Presenter, Affiliation
- Short topic abstract (topics should be IETF-related in some way)
- Coordinates to learn more, contact those involved, &/or relevant formal or side meetings
- All talks will be presented via pre-recorded video
- To submit a talk, send a link to a YouTube video to hotrfc@xxxxxxxx no later than November 4th, 1800 UTC.
- VIDEO MUST BE NO MORE THAN 4 MINUTES IN LENGTH (longer videos will be rejected)
- Some tips for prerecording talks are noted here.
- On November 3rd at TIME_TBD, during the virtual IETF Welcome Reception, HotRFC presentations will be viewable in the IETF’s Gather community at a collection of virtual kiosks. At each kiosk:
- Videos will be on display for viewing
- Presenters will be asked to be available for Q&A in an adjacent collaboration area
- The chat space will features a whiteboard for posting questions or sharing logistics for further discussion or collaboration
- Use of the Gather space for discussion is totally optional but it is recommended that minimally each talk have a note posted redirecting interested folks as to where they should go to get more involved
- We will also share the videos via an IETF-112 HotRFC YouTube playlist on the IETF YouTube channel for later viewing within a day or so.
Draft agenda of talks is here and will be added to the materials manager when the timing is finalized. I’ll send a note to the IETF, irtf-discuss, & 112attendees lists when the abstracts are ready.
I hope you’ll tune in.
--aaron
