Agenda for Vienna

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

Ok, so me, Sean and Randy have been discussing a possible agenda for 
Vienna. We tried to incorporate as much of the views as possible. Our 
suggestion is as follows :


1. We schedule two sessions.

2. The first session is early in the week, and have one topic. The 
proposals that have then been made formally to the IETF will each get 
around five minutes. Each presenter will be a member of a "panel". The 
working-group and the other presenters are allowed to ask questions on 
the proposals and try and better understand the proposals.

3. The second session will be scheduled later in the week. This will 
concentrate on the two main proposals that are currently being worked 
on. Those being loc/id which seems to be the main one, and host based 
solutions. This session would be started off with an overview of the 
status on this, and perhaps a summary of the earlier session.

So to elaborate a bit. The first session is not meant to be a "survivor 
wins" session; and that will put some work on the chairs. It's 
intention is to give a clearer picture of the proposals. The main 
reason for the first session would be to allow discussions around the 
proposals in the hallways, leading up to the next session (so we will 
try and have a few days in between). The first session is also not mean 
to be q "qualifying" session for the second one. To me (and from what I 
read on the list - most others) it is very clear that there is only two 
real solutions being worked on at the moment. I also want to point out 
that the WG sessions are not there for a full presentation of the 
proposals - You are supposed to read the drafts :-) ; which means that 
you need to submit the drafts. As for members of the panel, I would 
personally not want to see several similar proposals being presented, 
but there aren't that many out there anyway so this should not be an 
issue.

The second session is meant to be an opportunity to dig more into what 
we think are required of each of the solutions; what the issues are; 
ways forward. As has been said a number of times on this list by Vienna 
we need to have a lot of basic issues sorted out by Vienna.

As I see it at the moment I would schedule 1h for the first session and 
2h for the second one.

Last, I guess one of the questions will be "why the first session?". 
The intent is only that a better understanding of other proposals will 
help us with more ideas. I don't see the main track changing unless all 
of a sudden a large part of the working group change their minds.

I will leave this a few days for comments and then go ahead and make 
the request to the secretariat. We would like to do this as quick as 
possible though. And I hope that there isn't to many issues with this 
proposal.

Best regards,

- kurtis -