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Re: Last Call: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting Calendar

2006-05-17 06:43:46
Ray,

I don't know if there are other problems, but the events.cal
list appears to have not been kept up to date: 

For example, starting from the present,

        * 3GPP CN is shown as meeting 31 May- 2 June at location
        TBD, but is definitely scheduled for Warsaw.
        
        * 3GPP SA is shown a week later, also TBD, but scheduled
        for Warsaw.
        
        * NANOG 37 is shown as location TBD, but is definitely
        scheduled for San Jose, CA 4-7 June.
        
        * IETF 66 appears to have a location, but the calendar
        does not show it (we can't blame another organization
        for not telling us about  that one).
        
        * The 3GPP meetings in the last half of September also
        have locations established that are not shown on the
        list.
        
        * The October meetings of NANOG and ARIN have locations
        assigned and ARIN has a date.

I could go on, but perhaps that makes the point.

While those schedules are earlier than any you have asked about,
locations are an issue in whether or not conflicts occur and I
hope coordination (not merely looking at calendars) is occurring
with organizations with whom avoiding conflicts is critical.
Again taking a near-term example, the time-adjacency of the
ICANN meeting last March 26-31 with IETF 64 from the 19th-24th
would have been a major inconvenience were they in the same part
of the world; when one was in Dallas, TX, USA and the other in
Wellington, NZ, the times turn into a conflict.  I notice that
we have IETF 68 marked 18-23 March 2006, location TBD, and ICANN
26-30 March, location "Europe".   Are you endeavoring to assure
that they are at least on the same or adjacent continents?

Moving out into the 2008 time frame, I see similar adjacencies
between ANSI T11 and IETF 71 and again between T11 and IETF 72
and 73 (in all three cases, adjacent dates, neither location
announced, but it is a safe bet that T11 will meet in North
America).

I don't know whether T11 is on your "must avoid" or "should
avoid" lists or whether there are similar relationships going
forward.  Personally, I consider avoiding conflicts, or even
close adjacencies, with ICANN to be of higher priority than most
or all other bodies because they are, as far as I know, the only
to which IETF formally appoints a Board Liaison and a voting
Nomcom member, and on which we are dependent for critical
services (the IANA function).  But, if we are going to have
back-to-back meetings with any critical group (or, IMO, with the
same group three times in a row), dates are not quite good
enough to know whether conflicts exist.

regards,
   john



--On Wednesday, 17 May, 2006 06:58 -0400 Ray Pelletier
<rpelletier(_at_)isoc(_dot_)org> wrote:

All;

This is a 1 week Last Call for feedback on Version 01 proposed
2008 - 1010 IETF Meeting dates.  The IAOC anticipates taking
action to formally adopt dates on 25 May 2006.  These dates
differ from the originally proposed dates based upon community
feedback, a review of meeting dates of those organizations on
the Clash List and maintenance of a reasonably similar period
between meetings.  While every effort was made to avoid
conflicts where known, it was not always possible with those
organizations in the "should avoid" category.  Your feedback
to iad(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org on conflicts with these dates would be
appreciated.

Proposed 2008 - 2010 meeting dates:

2008

IETF 71  Mar 30 - Apr 4

IETF 72  Jul 27 - Aug 1

IETF 73  Dec 7 - 12

2009

IETF 74  Mar 22 - 27

IETF 75  Aug 2 - 7

IETF 76  Dec 6 - 11

2010

IETF 77  Mar 28 - Apr 2

IETF 78  Jul 25 - 30

IETF 79  Dec 5 - 10

Our findings of the schedule of other organization's meetings
can be found at: http://www.ietf.org/meetings/events.cal.html .

Thanks for your assistance.

Ray Pelletier
IAD

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