[DNSOP] Prep for IETF 113

[Suzanne Woolf <[e-mail]>]

Dear Colleagues,

We've got a couple of notes to share in advance of IETF 113.

First, please get your requests for DNSOP agenda time to the chairs as soon as you can. Our preliminary agenda is due to the secretariat by 9 March (see https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/113/important-dates/).

Note that the drafts deadline is 7 March (two weeks from today). Please get new drafts you want the WG to consider submitted by then, or update earlier drafts if you've gotten feedback you haven't integrated yet. This helps us set priorities for agenda time.

The preliminary schedule is out (see https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/agenda/) but "preliminary" is "mostly final," since it represents a solution to a complex game of "calendar and hotel facility tetris".  You will note that this time, DNSOP has one time slot, Tuesday morning at 10am-noon (local time in Vienna).

We only requested one slot, partly to help the secretariat with the tetris problem (fewer slots than usual for the hybrid meeting) but mostly because we believe the interim meetings we’ve been holding have spread out the workload for the WG so we don't really need two. This is an experiment; if it turns out one isn't enough, we'll reconsider for the next IETF.

Finally, we found the poll we did late in 2021, asking WG participants for their views on various drafts we'd already adopted, was very helpful, so we expect to run another poll before IETF 113. We have a distinct process for deciding what drafts to adopt, but the poll provides us with some guidance on priorities among work items. We'll send details in another message soon.

Benno will be in Vienna, and is looking forward to seeing any of you who are there. Tim and Suzanne regret that they'll be participating remotely, but hope to see you at IETF 114.


Much thanks,
Suzanne, Benno, and Tim