[Teep] My BoF impression

[Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

we started the meeting with a somewhat surprisingly large audience. Given the narrow focus on a protocol for managing software on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) I expected fewer people to show up. Instead, the room was full and it was one of the largest.

As I had expected the initial presentations providing background about TEEs was useful. I doubt that most attendees have had a chance to read through the material shared on the mailing list. After the meeting a few folks approached me and told me that they had learned new concepts during the BoF, which is good.

Following the presentations we had a couple of questions, which I believe, deserve further discussion on the list.

Going fast forward to the end of the meeting, the chairs asked two questions:

Q1: "Does the group understand the work to be done?"
A: More people hummed yes than no but it was only by a bit.  Not convincing.

Q2: How many people are interested in working on this?
A: About 14-15 people.

Sitting in the plane going back to Austria I was wondering whether we should have asked further questions to those who said "no". I am curious what aspect they didn't understood or whether this group included also those who weren't interested to do the work or, like PHB, wanted a different hardware security solution to begin with.

In any case, we will have to figure out what the next steps are and I am looking forward to chat with those who are interested to work on this topic. Please drop me a message if you care about turning TEEs into a more successful technology.

Ciao
Hannes

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