My schedule next week in the long days of IETF-71…
March 7th, 2008 by Dan York
On Sunday night I head down to Philadelphia for the IETF-71 meeting for the whole week. It will be a crazy week full of discussions and conversations about all the various standards under development. The RUCUS BOF I’ve mentioned before will be on Monday as is the SIPPING Working Group. MEDIACTRL Working Group (of key interest to us here at Voxeo) is on Wednesday as is SPEERMINT and PEPPERMINT (Hey, it’s IETF, you have to have cute names!). Thursday brings SIP, BEHAVE, AVT and ENUM and Friday morning winds it all up with the P2PSIP working group.
Being who I am, I’ll pretty much sit in all of the “Realtime Applications and Infrastructure” (RAI) working groups as sometimes activity in one group turns out to have great relevance to work in other groups (or to work here at Voxeo). I’ll be online the Jabber chat rooms probably much of the whole time as well.
If you’ve never seen the full agenda for an IETF meeting, it’s pretty incredible (at least to me!). In any given timeslot there are typically eight simultaneous meetings of various working groups, BOFs, research groups, etc. This makes sense if you remember that the IETF is developing standards for pretty much all aspects of the Internet. While I usually never leave the world of RAI, there are groups dealing with security, DNS, email, IPv6, network routing, time (seriously!), host configuration and pretty much every other subject you can imagine relating to the Internet. Take a look!
And yes, the days do begin with a breakfast at 8am and meetings that go until 7pm (often with additional ad hoc meetings afterwards). The good news is that the breaks between sessions usually have food and drink to keep you recharged.
For those attending who wish to stalkfind me, here below is the agenda I think I’ll be following (subject to the fact that it can, of course, change). Like I said earlier, it’s pretty much all of the RAI area.
MONDAY, March 10, 2008
0800-0900 Continental Breakfast - Franklin Hall Foyer
0900-1130 Morning Session I
| RAI | mmusic | Multiparty Multimedia Session Control WG |
1300-1500 Afternoon Session I
| RAI | rucus | Ruducing Unwanted Communications using SIP BOF |
1520-1720 Afternoon Session II
| RAI | ecrit | Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies WG |
1740-1950 Afternoon Session III
| RAI | sipping | Session Initiation Proposal Investigation WG |
TUESDAY, March 11, 2008
0800-0900 Continental Breakfast - Franklin Hall Foyer
0900-1130 Morning Session I
One of these:
| IRTF | rrg | Routing Research Group |
| OPS | v6ops | IPv6 Operations WG |
| RAI | geopriv | Geographic Location/Privacy WG |
1300-1500 Afternoon Session I
| RAI | bliss | Basic Level of Interoperability for SIP Services WG |
1520-1720 Afternoon Session II
| RAI | avt | Audio/Video Transport WG |
1740-1840 Afternoon Session III
One of these:
| IRTF | asrg | Anti-Spam Research Group |
| RAI | simple | SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions WG |
1850-1950 Afternoon Session IV
| RAI | xcon | Centralized Conferencing WG |
WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2008
0800-0900 Continental Breakfast - Franklin Hall Foyer
0900-1130 Morning Session I
| RAI | mediactrl | Media Server Control WG |
1300-1500 Afternoon Session I
| RAI | speermint | Session PEERing for Multimedia INTerconnect WG |
1510-1610 Afternoon Session II
| RAI | peppermint | Provisioning Extensions in Peering Registries for Multimedia INTerconnection BOF |
1610-1700 PGP Session
(Yes, I’m one of those people who does actually go to PGP key signings.)
| pgp | PGP Key Signing |
1700-1930 IETF Operations and Administration Plenary - Salon G/H
THURSDAY, March 13, 2008
0800-1700 IETF Registration - Franklin Hall Foyer
0800-0900 Continental Breakfast - Franklin Hall Foyer
0900-1130 Morning Session I
| RAI | sip | Session Initiation Protocol WG |
1300-1500 Afternoon Session I
One of these:
| IRTF | hiprg | Host Identity Protocol |
| SEC | saag | Security Area Open Meeting |
| TSV | behave | Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance WG |
1510-1610 Afternoon Session II
One of these:
| RAI | avt | Audio/Video Transport WG |
| RAI | enum | Telephone Number Mapping WG |
1700-1930 Technical Plenary - Salon G/H
FRIDAY, March 14, 2008
0800-0900 Continental Breakfast - Franklin Hall Foyer
0900-1130 Morning Session I
| RAI | p2psip | Peer-to-Peer Session Initiation Protocol WG |
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March 9th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Down at IETF 71 in Philadelphia this week
This week (March 10-14) finds me down in Philadelphia for IETF-71, the 71st meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (the people who write the standards for the Internet). I don’t honestly know how much I’ll be blogging here on