Re: [Coin] Cancelling the COINRG meeting at IETF113

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Fri, 11 March 2022 22:43 UTC

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From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Jon Crowcroft <Jon.Crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: [Coin] Cancelling the COINRG meeting at IETF113
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 09:49:21PM +0000, Jon Crowcroft wrote:
> sorry, but you are wrong.

About what ?

> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 08:35:16AM +0000, Schooler, Eve M wrote:
> > > As for transparency…If you are a regular reader of this list, then it 
> > is painfully obvious that there has been quite a bit of divisiveness 
> > happening both on and off the list. As chairs, given the state of the 
> > agenda and the tone of the dialog, we felt the need to take a step back 
> > from the vitriol and simply take a deep breath to regroup.
> > 
> > I am sorry to hear that you feel that way. But you can imagine that
> > anybody who might feel addressed by your "vitriol" would not be happy 
> > about that
> > name calling either. I for once don't that anybody did spill vitriol, and 
> > especially
> > if you think i did, then i would very much appreciate if you would call 
> > such
> > a perception out, for example in private mail, before making it lead to 
> > such
> > choices for the RG.
> > 
> > I am also not sure where there would be divisiveness in the community 
> > wrt. COIN work.
> > As i said, with a charter as openly written, there is a lot of freedom to 
> > put
> > work items in or out of scope, and the chairs did attempt to define a line
> > what was in and out. In response, i was suggesting a technical 
> > presentation
> > that was intended to describe the intricate dependencies between what was
> > declared to be in and what was maybe? declared out (not to dissimilar to 
> > what IMHO
> > the use-case draft has), but with use-case examples focussed on what i 
> > think
> > we would call semantic addressing. To help continue that 
> > technical/research discussion.
> > 
> > In any case, it would be nice to understand if/when you would make a 
> > decision
> > whether to accept my proposal for a presentation based on the outline i 
> > sent.
> > 
> > Cheers
> >     Toerless
> > 
> > > We certainly have valued the continued involvement of the COIN 
> > community, which has made many of the discussions vibrant and rewarding.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Eve
> > >
> > > From: Coin <coin-bounces@irtf.org> On Behalf Of Dirk Trossen
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2022 10:30 PM
> > > To: Marie-Jose Montpetit <marie@mjmontpetit.com>; coin <coin@irtf.org>
> > > Cc: coinrg-chairs <coinrg-chairs@ietf.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [Coin] Cancelling the COINRG meeting at IETF113
> > >
> > > Hi J/E/M, all,
> > >
> > > Now that’s a surprise, not just in content but also in style since 
> > the RG community lacks the transparency of this decision.
> > >
> > > As a COIN RG member myself for now more than 3 years (spanning two 
> > organizations), I had looked forward to discussing at least three 
> > activities in which I am involved in, namely the (i) use case advances 
> > (trying to formulate and categorize the pertinent research questions in a 
> > number of COIN areas), (ii) the applicability of SDN for routing (i.e. 
> > the use of DP programmability for realizing novel routing solutions, 
> > which according to the chairs is in scope of COIN), and (iii) a 
> > discussion on how COIN could help improve on DLT realizations; all 
> > activities resulting from research on topics I see as relevant to and 
> > within COIN.
> > >
> > > So this gives already three agenda items from where I’m coming from 
> > (depending on willingness for time allocation, between about 45 to 60mins 
> > on an agenda in my mind) but yet we are told at ‘we cannot put a good 
> > agenda together’. Is there nothing beyond these items, really, and/or 
> > is this a judgement of those items in quality (I would expect good 
> > discussions on them but maybe it is just me)?
> > >
> > > So I’m disappointed but also shocked by this style of simply 
> > cancelling the RG meeting with that (too) thin ‘we cannot put a good 
> > agenda together for IETF113’ explanation. I cannot and do not see the 
> > reasoning behind it albeit I may speculate but I am not a friend of those 
> > second guesses.
> > >
> > > Hence, I would ask the community here: what discussions were we looking 
> > forward to have? Are those good enough to discuss regardless of the RG 
> > meeting being cancelled? If there is no RG meeting for whatever reason, 
> > maybe we can simply come together among those interested in those 
> > discussions and have them regardless, such as in a side meeting of the 
> > ‘COIN community’ (not the RG)?
> > >
> > > From my side, I would be highly interested in that since I have valued 
> > the COIN discussions over the past years and don’t want to let go of 
> > this for reasons that are just not well enough explained below.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Dirk
> > >
> > > From: Coin [mailto:coin-bounces@irtf.org] On Behalf Of Marie-Jose 
> > Montpetit
> > > Sent: 11 March 2022 00:45
> > > To: coin <coin@irtf.org<mailto:coin@irtf.org>>
> > > Cc: coinrg-chairs 
> > <coinrg-chairs@ietf.org<mailto:coinrg-chairs@ietf.org>>
> > > Subject: [Coin] Cancelling the COINRG meeting at IETF113
> > >
> > > Dear all:
> > >
> > > Because of many converging issues, delays and (non) availability of 
> > invited researchers and papers we cannot put a good agenda together for 
> > IETF113.  Hence we are cancelling the meeting.
> > >
> > > We plan to re-group, consult the community and plan for 114.
> > >
> > > Discussions on the use cases and other important COIN topics will have 
> > to continue or be initiated on the list for now. Of course as the 
> > co-author of a draft that was going to be presented I am disappointed.
> > >
> > > The co-chairs are in full agreement that this is the right decision at 
> > this point and the IRTF leadership has been kept in the loop.
> > >
> > > J/E/M
> > >