Re: [Cellar] IETF 99: registration, dates, planning, agenda

> On Jun 11, 2017, at 11:49 AM, Steve Lhomme <slhomme@matroska.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tessa,
> 
> 2017-06-07 18:24 GMT+02:00 Tessa Fallon <tessa.fallon@gmail.com>:
>> 1) Just a friendly reminder that the early bird deadline for in-person
>> attendance at IETF 99 is July 07, 2017. Below is a list of all registration
>> fees:
>> 
>> Registration fee:
>> 
>> Early-Bird: $700 USD* , if paid in full prior to 2359 UTC Friday, July 07,
>> 2017.
>> Late: $875 USD* if paid after Early-Bird cutoff date and time.
>> One Day Pass: $375 USD* (Includes access to any one day of meeting sessions
>> and breaks, plus the Sunday Tutorials & Reception, and the Plenaries).
>> Full-time students: $150 USD* with on-site proof of ID.
>> Remote Participants: No fee.
>> 
>> I also want to emphasize that there is no fee for remote participation,
>> since I know many of you are interested in participating remotely.
>> Information on how to participate remotely will be circulated to this list
>> prior to the meeting.
> 
> In the end I won't make it in person. But I will definitely attend remotely.
> 
>> To register, please visit: https://www.ietf.org/meeting/register.html
>> 
>> 2)  I'd like to put together an assessment of current CELLAR work,
>> milestones reached, and other issues.  If you're interested in assisting
>> with this, please let me know.  I'm especially interested in hearing from
>> those who have contributed to the specs.
> 
> I think Dave is better qualified but I think overall we went over most
> of the issues on EBML. There are still 5 left and 3 pull requests (2
> ready to be pushed).

I am interested in helping on the assessment. Since Steve wrote (~2 hours ago), there are updates to the pull requests for EBML.

There’s one regarding mandating that EBML Schemas themselves document the EBML Header and Global elements.
https://github.com/Matroska-Org/ebml-specification/pull/152 <https://github.com/Matroska-Org/ebml-specification/pull/152> (with some background discussion at https://github.com/Matroska-Org/ebml-specification/issues/128 <https://github.com/Matroska-Org/ebml-specification/issues/128>).

Another pull request is available regarding terminating string/utf-8 elements with null octets.
https://github.com/Matroska-Org/ebml-specification/pull/141

> On Matroska we refined the documentation, clarified some things. But
> there are still 25 issues and 8 pending pull requests. I think there's
> still quite a bit of stuff to do in there.

I agree that while EBML seems ready for a last call, that Matroska needs more work and more volunteers. There are many sections needing attention, for instance the tagging and metadata section has not been well-reviewed, same for many of the Matroska element definitions, documentation on chapters and menus, etc. If you’re considering working on Matroska but would like suggestions or mentorship, please let us know.
Dave

>> 3)  If you're interested in adding an item to or helping with the agenda for
>> the CELLAR meeting, please me know.
>> 
>> Thanks all,
>> 
>> Tessa
>> 
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