BMWG,

While we finalize the conference-oriented details
for the Interim meeting, I want to communicate the
consensus on the DATE, with the time being constrained
by the time zones involved. (There are a few who could not
make this date, but it seems to be the best for most).

UTC (GMT)  Friday, October 30, 2009 at 13:30:00 to 16:00:00
start times in
Geneva (Switzerland)    Friday, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:30:00 PM  UTC+1 hour CET
New York (U.S.A.)       Friday, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:30:00 AM  UTC-4 hours EDT
San Francisco (U.S.A.)  Friday, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:30:00 AM  UTC-7 hours PDT
Note that the USA will still be observing Daylight Savings Time,
while Europe and many other locations be on Standard Time.

The meeting will include a 30 minute warm-up, because we anticipate
the ability to use webex for this conference in addition to an
audio bridge, and it may take time to get everyone on-board.
Then we will have a full two hours to discuss drafts
and resolve comments.

So far, we have proposals to discuss the following drafts,
some of which are available now, and others which are planned
to be complete by the revised draft deadline of Oct 26th:

NEW WORK ITEM PROPOSAL: BENCHMARKS FOR DATA CENTER BRIDGING DEVICES
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-player-dcb-benchmarking-00.txt

IP Flow Information Accounting and Export Benchmarking Methodology
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-novak-bmwg-ipflow-meth-04.txt

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Benchmarking Terminology for Protection Performance
Methodology for benchmarking MPLS protection mechanisms
To be provided: Revised versions of one or both drafts
Benchmarking Link-State IGP Data Plane Route Convergence
To be provided: terms and meth drafts

Benchmarking Methodology for Content-Aware Network Devices
To be provided: draft-hamilton-bmwg-ca-bench-meth-(02)

(There has also been off-list discussion of the RESET work,
but no commitment to produce a -00 draft yet by the 19th.)

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

I've simply listed these in the order that authors responded,
with a preference to drafts that are available now, then the
committed drafts.

Authors: to get on the agenda (which will look roughly like the above
list), you should have revised drafts submitted by the regular IETF
deadlines, and slides to help organize discussion, raise issues, etc.
IF we have additional agenda time, we could
possibly take-up a slides-only discussion on issues with a
*working group chartered item*.

Questions, Comments, Bashing to me or the list, as appropriate.

regards,
Al
bmwg chair


At 10:59 AM 10/8/2009, Al Morton wrote:
>As an Update to the Working Group, we are now
>looking at the fourth week of October,
>on 26 Monday, 27 Tuesday or 30 Friday,
>as dates for the Interim meeting.
>
>I still need to hear from some authors, and any
>participants who have a strong preference.
>
>regards,
>Al
>bmwg chair
>
>
>At 10:28 AM 9/21/2009, Al Morton wrote:
>>BMWG,
>>
>>As discussed at the last session in Stockholm, both
>>our AD-Advisor Ron and I have schedule conflicts with
>>IETF-76 week, and are unable to travel to the meeting.
>>We mentioned that BMWG could have an Interim meeting to
>>progress work, likely a 2 hour conference call supported by
>>a document conference system, such as webex.
>>
>>The weeks between IETF meetings are rapidly slipping by, and I
>>want to investigate the possibility of a meeting during
>>the 3rd week of October, on 19 Monday, 20 Tuesday or 23 Friday.
>>The time would need to be friendly to both Europe and US
>>(we don't have any active participants from other zones, AFAIK)
>>so that means it would start at about 11AM US Eastern time,
>>+/1 an hour or so.
>>
>>The main question at this point is to ALL DOCUMENT EDITORS:
>>
>>- Will there be an update of your draft ready for discussion
>>   by the 2nd week of October, to give people a chance to read
>>   it prior to the meeting?  If not, by when will an update be
>>   available?
>>
>>I know of one such draft right now, a new work proposal from
>>David Newman and Timmons Player:
>>http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-player-dcb-benchmarking-00.txt
>>
>>If we have sufficient drafts to discuss, then we'll meet.
>>If not, we'll look at the calendar again with the dates
>>supplied by the editors.
>>
>>Please reply to the list.
>>
>>thanks and regards,
>>Al
>>bmwg chair
>>
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