I meant to chat with John privately (sorry!) after seeing his concerns a
couple of weeks ago.
I think we are conflating several good ideas in ways that are not helpful,
so teasing them apart might help.
Specifically, distinguishing between
- presentations of proposed new work (something like the IEEE "Plenary
Tutorials" that happen at night during IEEE meetings - see
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/tutorial/index.html - not a BOF, but an
explanation,
- presentation of overall direction for technologies that we are actively
working on (as Richard Lewis suggested earlier on this list), and
- presentations of work that has at least been through the standards process
once (roughly, Radia Perlman's "Bridging and Routing" tutorial that has been
given a few times at recent IETFs)
might be helpful - I'm pretty sure they don't all fit in the same box.
I should also point out that all three of these are different from
"technical tutorials" covering specialist material that non-specialists need
some level of familiarity with (roughly, the "Security" and "DNS" tutorials
given at recent IETFs).
I should also point out that all *four* of the above are different from
Interop/Usenix-style half-day or all-day tutorials (I suspect this may be
where you start getting close to something that you could charge for).
I don't have special insight into the right way to do/not do any of these,
I'm just trying to make sure that (for example) we don't whack the DNS
tutorial because it's a "technical tutorial", since lots of people are
noodling about SRV records, NAPTR records, etc. who have never operated a
DNS server (so every clue helps).
Thanks,
Spencer
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