Re: [116attendees] IETF guides needed for IETF 116

[Michael StJohns <[e-mail]>]

On 3/14/2023 3:47 PM, Alexa Morris wrote:
> Hi Jean,
>
>> On Mar 14, 2023, at 7:57 AM, Jean F. Quéralt 
>> <JFQueralt=[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Q: Would these be the only "Introduction to IETF" sessions?
>
> Some technical sessions are considered more accessible to new 
> participants than others, and these have been listed in a recent blog 
> post (https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf116-new-topics/) which may be of 
> interest to you.
>
>>
>> - The agenda does not have obvious descriptions for most of the sessions.
>> Q: This is only available for those sessions with "Meeting materials" 
>> or am I missing something in the interface?
>
> You are not missing anything. Sometimes agendas are added right before 
> the meeting, so hopefully there will be more information available soon.
>
> Best,
> Alexa
> IETF Secretariat

To expand on this slightly - the IETF meeting (both in-person and 
remote) is a working standards meeting rather than a traditional 
conference.  Most of the sessions are either working groups meeting to 
discuss on-going work, or various area coordination meetings.   The best 
way of getting an idea of what will be discussed at a WG meeting is to 
review the last month of so of discussion on the mailing list for the 
WG.  The datatracker pages for a given working group 
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/<wgname>) will give you the best idea 
of the documents under discussion, and the general status of the group.

Good luck - Mike