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Re: [ietf-dkim] DKIM BOF agenda

2005-10-24 15:08:55
Folks,
1.  Agenda & introduction (10)
2.  Walk through proposed charter (15)
3.  Discussion of proposed charter -- open (20)
4.  Walk through threat analysis -- Fenton (15)
5.  Walk through base spec -- Allman (10)
6.  Walk through policy spec -- Allman (10)
7.  Introduce other deliverables (10)
8.  Open discussion of specs & deliverables -- open (20)
9.  Decision: should a WG be formed with this charter? (10

In thinking more about the agenda, some questions occur:

1. The previous BOF gave overviews of the threat analysis, base spec and policy spec. The threat analysis has changed substantially since then, but the changes to the other to documents are relatively small. The current budget for, essentially, reviewing the content of these 3 documents is 35 minutes. Out of 2 hours, that's more than 25% for document review.

2. The charter has received extensive discussion online, through two complete rounds of review. Do we really need to budget 12.5% of the meeting reviewing it?

Rather, on the theory that

    a) folks who care about this activity are well aware of it, and

b) matters of discussion and debate are likely to need more than a few minutes,

I wonder about designing an agenda that presumes that participants already have familiarity and that most of the time is for trying to resolve outstanding differences.
An agenda along these lines might look something like:

1.  Agenda & introduction (5)
2.  Highlights of proposed charter (5)
3.  Discussion of proposed charter -- open (35)
4.  Changes in the threat analysis -- Fenton (10)
5.  Changes in the base spec -- Allman (5)
6.  Changes in the policy spec -- Allman (5)
7.  Introduce other deliverables (10)
8.  Open discussion of specs & deliverables -- open (35)
9.  Decision: should a WG be formed with this charter? (10)

It is not at all onerous to expect meeting participants to have done their homework. So let's try to use the scarce face-to-face time with a particular focus on resolving things.

Thoughts?

d/
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