[75all] More information on the IAB Plenary
IAB Chair <iab-chair@ietf.org> Mon, 27 July 2009 13:49 UTC
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Dear Colleagues, During the Thursday evening technical plenary we have an agenda that features 3 parts: - IAB and IRTF Chair Reports - A technical topic around Net Neutrality - An open microphone session Some words on organization and purpose of the agenda follow. = Open Microphone Session Organization. The purpose of an open microphone session mainly for the IAB to account for their actions. It is the moment where the IAB can clarify its actions or (published) thoughts. Questions about those can normally be answered in a straightforward and direct manner. Much harder are the long rhetoric questions where folk present their architectural vision and ask the IAB for their comments. Answers to such questions are often, because of the nature of the questions, vague and not to the point while, quite unrealistically, visionary answers are expected. If you consider asking a question during the open-microphone session it would be helpful to send that question to the IAB<iab@iab.org> in advance. In that way we may be able to think about the problem and answer your question effectively. Note that sending in a question is _not_ a requirement for asking one. The open microphone session will be structured around the central microphone for fresh-topics and the side microphones for follow-ups. Please be considerate to the audience in the room and in 'audio-land': state your name clearly, and try to ask your questions succinctly and comprehensively. = Network Neutrality; placing the debate in IETF context Below you will find the description of this agenda topic as it can be found in the agenda but I would like to add a few, what I hope will be, clarifying words. IAB technical sessions are organized for several reasons. Sometimes the IAB wants to get a message across to the community, sometimes we think a technical topic will be informative or entertaining for the IETF community, and sometimes the IAB wants to to be informed itself through a discussion with the community. This session is intended to be of the last variety. What we are trying to accomplish is a more in-depth understanding of how policy and technical requirement and realities interact and how IETF technology can be designed for, or impacted by, the tussle. We think we can accomplish through the presentations and the follow up discussion on how various technology choices would impact the various different policy choices and vice verse. It is certainly not the intention of the IAB to develop a position in the network neutrality debate. It is the intention to understand the impact of the debate on the technology. We would therefore like the participants of the open session to refrain from passing judgement on the policy choices. Rather think, in-depth, about the interactions with technology, specifically within their area of expertise. Marcelo Bagnulo will be moderating the network neutrality open microphone and also here we will use the central microphone for new topics and the outlying microphones for new topics. Also, he will try to limit the discussion per topic to about 5 minutes. ---------------------------------- For completeness the agenda as posted follows. Agenda for the IETF 75 Technical plenary THURSDAY, July 30, 20009. 17:00-19:30 [16:30-17:00] + Welcome + IRTF Chair's report Aaron Falk + IAB Chair's report Olaf Kolkman [17:00-19:10] + Network Neutrality; placing the debate in IETF context - Introduction IAB - (5 min) - Overview of the network neutrality debate Barbara van Schewick - (45 min) - Implications for protocol design Mark Handley - (40 min) - Moderated discussion All - (40 min) See more detail below [19:10-19:30] + Open microphone session Network Neutrality; placing the debate in IETF context Over the last few years, the network neutrality debate has raised significant amount of interest among the different Internet stakeholders. Regulators all over the world are considering whether to introduce network neutrality regulation in their countries. Their decisions may have far-reaching implications for security, quality of service, or business models, among others. At the same time, what started as a debate over whether network providers should be allowed to block unaffiliated applications and content on their networks has evolved into a number of sub-debates that are difficult to follow. The technical plenary is devoted to present the network neutrality debate and its implications to the IETF community. It will start with an introduction to the debate and will continue with an analysis of the implications of such debate for the design of Internet protocols. It is not the intention of the organizers to have (yet another) instance of the NN debate, instead we want to investigate how the design of Internet Protocols is influenced by or can influence the debate. Therefore Barbara van Schewick, a specialist in how regulatory aspects influence communication networks, will first introduce an overview of the various aspects of the debate. Thereafter Mark Handley, a well known Internet Architect researcher, will share his thoughts on how the Network Neutrality tussle impacts protocol design. The two presentations will be followed by a discussion where we would like to ask the participants to focus on the technical aspects and considerations, and to keep away from stating their NN opinion.