[saag] Re: Government–Industry Dialogue Public Side Meeting at IETF 126 Vienna

John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com> Fri, 17 July 2026 22:46 UTC

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From: John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com>
To: Muhammad Usama Sardar <muhammad_usama.sardar@tu-dresden.de>, IETF SAAG <saag@ietf.org>
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It is a public side meeting. Everyone is welcome.


Cheers,
John Preuß Mattsson


From: Muhammad Usama Sardar <muhammad_usama.sardar@tu-dresden.de>
Date: Friday, 17 July 2026 at 23:15
To: John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com>; IETF SAAG <saag@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [saag] Government–Industry Dialogue Public Side Meeting at IETF 126 Vienna



Hi John,
Thanks for organizing this. It is great to have government and industry together.

However, could you please clarify whether you want to have "Public Side Meeting" or "Private Meeting" as mentioned in [0]? While I am interested, your current framing seems not to allow me to participate, as I am neither in government nor in industry.

The subject of email says "Public Side Meeting" but as formally stated on the official webpage of the side meetings [0]: (emphasis my own)

[Public] Side meetings should be open and free to attend to any registered IETF participant.

So if you want to have Public Side Meeting, I don't think you can limit it to government and industry participants. Often government and industry participants do not have the time or skills to do the formal proofs. Mostly academic and research institute participants help in that perspective, and sometimes even find some subtle cases or useful assumptions, which may not be obvious while just looking at the protocol. I don't see a good reason to exclude such participants.


On the other hand, if you want to have Private Meeting, my understanding from [0] is that you would be welcome to limit it to whatever you want, but then I don't think you can use the Public Side Meeting rooms for that.



On 17.07.26 08:06, John Mattsson wrote:

Post-Quantum Cryptography: Government–Industry Dialogue

This side meeting will bring together government and industry stakeholders to discuss [...]



In particular, I find the above scoping of participants problematic for Public Side Meeting. So please clarify.

Best,
-Usama



[0] https://www.ietf.org/meeting/side-meetings/ <margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;>