Speaking of Standards

As I mentioned previously, there is some activity related to the IETF happening within the walls of Facebook. With IETF 70 over last week, I was both surprised and pleased to see that Tony Li over at Cisco had already created a Facebook Event for IETF 71 in Philadelphia on March 10-14, 2008. If you are a Facebook user, you can add yourself to the Event if you will be attending.

Now that I know the event has been created, it will be interesting to see what usage it gets in advance of the IETF 71 meeting. I confess to being a bit skeptical about the usage of Facebook Events and Groups for coordinating or communicating in advance of meetings. In theory, they seem useful, but because you only get notified of new wall posts or discussions when you visit the Event or Group page, I don’t really see the conversations developing.

In any case, it’s an interesting experiment and I’ll be glad to join in to see what comes of it.

For those of you who are also Facebook users, a friend alerted me to the fact that there is a Facebook group for the IETF. Like most groups inside of Facebook, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of activity happening within the group itself, but the group is a useful way to find other IETF members within Facebook.

I also noticed that there is a Facebook event for the IETF 70 meeting next week in Vancouver. If you are going to be there and are a Facebook user, here’s another way to potentially network with fellow attendees.

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