IETF 120 HotRFC Talk Solicitation

[Liz Flynn <lflynn@xxxxxxxx>]

Do you have an idea, problem space, or proposal that IETFers and IRTFers should hear about?

Do you want to propose IETF or IRTF work but aren’t sure if your idea is ready or who else will be interested?

Agenda requests are now being accepted for the Request for Conversation (HotRFC) lightning talk session. Presenters will have 4 minutes to make their case for conversations. Interested folks can contact the presenter and continue the discussion after the session. 

Goals include encouraging brainstorming conversations, helping new work proposers find collaborators, raising awareness of relevant work going on elsewhere, and promoting BarBoFs. Past HotRFC lightning talks have covered a broad range of purposes, including:

• 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 BOF, working group or research group, especially 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.

With the current hybrid IETF meeting format, we’re going to keep things simple and permit only live presentations, either on-site or remote via MeetEcho. Slides must be submitted in advance. 

To request a slot, submit a short abstract to hotrfc@xxxxxxxx no later than Friday, 2024-07-19, 2400 local meeting time that includes the following:

• Talk title
• Presenter, Affiliation, and whether you’ll be presenting in person or remotely
• Short topic abstract (topics should be IETF- or IRTF-related in some way)
• What you're looking for (education, collaborators, implementers, etc.)
• Coordinates to learn more, contact those involved, participate in existing mailing lists and scheduled meetings, and/or relevant formal or side meetings.
• Any relevant drafts or helpful resources you’d like collaborators to look at

To provide slides, submit ppt or pdf to hotrfc@xxxxxxxx no later than Saturday, 2024-07-20, 2400 local meeting time.

• Talk abstracts and slides will be posted on the meeting agenda. The agenda will be updated as requests come in.

The session will be on Sunday, 2024-07-21, at 1800 local IETF meeting time  

• All talks will be presented live, whether in-person or via MeetEcho.

• Video of the session will be recorded for later viewing.

Spencer Dawkins and Liz Flynn will be hosting the session on-site.  We hope you’ll tune in.

-- the HotRFC team

P.s. If you think holding a public side meeting would be useful for people who are interested in your topic, there’s a wiki for that, at https://wiki.ietf.org/meeting/120/sidemeetings.