Subject: [EAT] BOF Preparation

From: Hannes Tschofenig <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:30:21 +0000

Hi Ben, Hi BOF chairs, Hi all,

I have been thinking about how to turn this BoF into a success. I see a few challenges:

There are different items in scope of the work and we (Arm) are interested in contributing to those that relate to the EAT/attestation token work. We are happy to give a presentation about those but I haven't seen any agenda for the BoF yet. Who is in charge of preparing an agenda? I have seen BoFs fail where the presentations weren't well aligned or not clearly demonstrating a real-world problem.

At the BoF we will have to demonstrate that there are companies involved who are actually willing to do the heavy lifting to turn this effort into a success. Since there are very different items listed on the proposed charter text I am curious whether there is reasonable support for all of them. I can only speak for our interest in the EAT items and we are working with companies to state their support on the mailing list. But the BoF is likely going to fail if there is only support for a subset of the items. Where are we with the rest and who is reaching out to which part of the industry?

Ciao
Hannes

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