draft agenda for Sept f2f

[Diane Jordan <drj@us.ibm.com>]

A draft agenda for the 9/21-23 f2f is
below.  We can discuss this on the call tomorrow.  Email comments
are also welcome.
Based on input from the issues coordination
group, I used certain guidelines in putting it together that you may be
interested in:    
- priority is to review and approve
the most recent version of the spec and to make as much progress on resolving
issues as possible.  
- issues that have proposals to vote,
or which seem close to having one (determined by consensus of attendees)
will be prioritized.  I've gotten a few suggestions from the issues
coordination group - feel free to let me know your "favorites".
 
- we'll try to start with "easy"
ones that can hopefully be disposed of quickly (of course this is a matter
of opinion and the reality may surprise us).  
-once we've been through the issues
with proposed resolutions, we will start on those with outstanding draft
proposals and then work through all the issues by category (this is in
contrast to previous f2f meetings where we went through the categories
for issues being voted).  
I'd like to suggest we all work to manage
the discussions so we do not belabor points where we are unlikely to make
progress.  We can defer discussion for more consideration or use ballots
(straw polls or regular) to try to get through impasses.    

As we've done in the past, we will break
every 2 hours to take a checkpoint on the agenda, update roll on the phone,
switch minute taker and hold votes as required.  

Proposed agenda:
- Start up admin:  roll
call, approve agenda, appoint minute takers, approve last meeting minutes
- review and approve latest draft
of spec 
- issue discussion:
First priority: Issues with proposals
to vote:   We will cover proposals to vote in reverse order to that
which they've been received to avoid bogging down early on ones that we've
already deferred for various reasons, but all will be discussed.  As
of today this would be issues 123, 10, 129, 151, 152, 2, 115. 
New proposals to vote received before
this Fri. will go to the top of the list.  
We will review issues 91, 97, 99, 107
as a group along with the other abstract issues on Wed to accomodate one
of the folks who is very involved and can't attend Tues.  Exact time
will depend on where we are in the other issues under discussion.

Second priority:  issues with draft
proposals that may be able to be "promoted" to proposals:
- since most of these have come from
Yaron, I've largely taken his input on which he thinks are closest:  137,
134, 89,  9, 52, 87, 135, 6 
- These are ones that will probably
take more time based on his input or the email traffic:  103, 110,
81,139

Third: review all remaining issues by
category (alphabetical order).
 
- Schedule 
On Thursday we will reserve some time
to discuss the schedule and whether we want to establish new checkpoints
for managing the work.  A suggestion has been made that we should
require future proposals to vote to include all require spec language changes.
 We may also want to discuss the suggestion that at some point we
will want to start closing issues that have aged to a certain point without
any activity and when we might project putting something like that in effect.
 I encourage you to send any additional ideas in this area to the
email list for consideration prior to the meeting.

Regards, Diane
IBM  Emerging Internet Software Standards
drj@us.ibm.com
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