On Feb 11 and 12, there will be an Applications Area Architecture
workshop somewhere in the Bay Area. We hope to nail down a venue
once we've got a better idea of attendance. We are going to look
for a host, but if there are a few expenses not covered, we may ask
for a few 100$ attendance fee. If we need to charge a small fee
we'll ask in advance of the actual meeting.
Position papers are required of all attendees by Dec 14. These
should be a few pages of text on some topic related to Applications
area architectural issues. Since the group of attendees is
expected to span HTTP and AtomPub, email, IM, calendaring,
directories and more, issues should be of interest to more than one
of these groups. Some existing Applications architecture "modules"
that already are reused include SASL, URLs, MIME types, XML and
XML schemas and namespaces, HTTP as a substrate, TLS, ABNF, BEEP.
A position paper could describe a problem or make a proposal to
solve a problem. The paper could be a prelude to an I-D of any
kind or to a WG charter, or might simply educate and persuade. An
ideal position paper would seed new work or make progress towards
solving a problem that would benefit Apps protocol designers,
implementors or users.
Participants may send position papers directly to Lisa and Chris,
although you can send position papers directly to the Apps Discuss
list (we'll be circulating the papers publicly anyway).
Since the due date for papers is Dec 14, if you'd like to flesh out
an idea, the Vancouver IETF meeting might be a handy place to grab
people and do so.
In advance of Dec 14, we'd still appreciate early RSVPs.
Lisa