Re: BoF's in the Age of Covids

Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> Mon, 18 May 2020 17:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: BoF's in the Age of Covids
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On 5/17/20 7:16 PM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote:
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>
> In meat-space, this was what we intended the HotRFC sessions on Sunday 
> nights of IETF week to be.
>
> We didn't have HotRFC for IETF 107, and no one complained because we 
> were thrilled we could actually get all the BOFs, area sessions, and 
> first-time working groups scheduled, but if we're not going to have a 
> face-to-face session in 2020 (does anyone think we are?), it may be 
> worth asking the Aaron Falks of the world to think about what they 
> need to run HotRFC virtually, really, and whether that could be done 
> more frequently than three times per year.
>
> I note that "how important is HotRFC for IETF 108?" was on the meeting 
> survey a couple of weeks ago - perhaps we got some helpful thoughts 
> there, too.
>
Oh, that's interesting. Sort of a spoken version of the bulletin board. 
I like that it acronym collides with rfc and is actually true to its 
acronym unlike it's elder :)

A virtual one would actually have an advantage that you could post a bar 
bof conference url too.

Mike