Subject: [v6ops] Fwd: IETF 107 Vancouver In-Person Meeting Cancelled

From: Fred Baker <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:48:51 -0700

For those of you who haven't yet seen this, cancel your flights to Vancouver and your hotel rooms. Stay tuned for information regarding refunding of registrations (watch IETF-Announce)

Ron and I plan to discuss the agenda for the in-person meeting (which won't happen) tomorrow. Let me ask a question - one that I have not discussed with him yet.

In liu of a virtual meeting, what would you think about doing last calls on the list for

  - draft-ietf-v6ops-464xlat-optimization-00.txt
  - draft-ietf-v6ops-cpe-slaac-renum-01.txt
  - draft-ietf-v6ops-nd-cache-init-01.txt
  - draft-ietf-v6ops-slaac-renum-01.txt
  - draft-ietf-dhc-v6only-00.txt

These would each be two weeks long, starting March 30, and ask basically two questions - "what further edits do you think are required", and "is it ready to get sent in?

We would likely follow those by asking for comments on draft-palet-v6ops-ipv6-only, which is a draft Jordi kicked around last year and has recently reposted with minor changes (https://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-palet-v6ops-ipv6-only-05.txt).

draft-ietf-dhc-v6only-00.txt is actually a DHC draft, but Jen and the DHC chairs would like v6ops commentary.

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> From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
> Subject: IETF 107 Vancouver In-Person Meeting Cancelled
> Date: March 10, 2020 at 12:10:27 PM PDT
> To: "IETF Announcement List" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
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> The IESG and the IRTF Chair have decided to cancel the in-person IETF 107 Vancouver meeting. This decision is based on input we gathered from Working Group (WG) and Research Group (RG) chairs about our ability to hold productive WG and RG sessions at IETF 107. Our assessment of this feedback is that a majority of sessions would not be viable if we were to hold the in-person IETF meeting. On this basis, we believe we cannot hold an effective in-person meeting.
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> As a result of this cancellation, the in-person Hackathon, Code Sprint, all other in-person events planned for the weekend of March 21-22, the chairs training scheduled for March 20, and all other in-person sessions during the week are cancelled.
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> The IESG is working on an alternative all-virtual agenda for the week of March 21-27 with a limited schedule adapted to accommodate the time zones of as many participants as possible. We are also planning to support an increased volume of virtual interim meetings during the weeks that follow. We will send another update to the community soon with more information about these plans. The Hackathon organizers are also considering plans for virtual Hackathon support.
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> We have re-opened Internet-Draft submissions, which had been closed on March 9 in anticipation of the in-person meeting. Internet-Drafts may be submitted at <https://datatracker.ietf.org/submit/>.
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> A separate announcement from the IETF Executive Director will follow with details about registration cancellations and refunds.
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> These are unusual times given the circumstances created by the spread of COVID-19.  We hope that everyone remains safe and healthy.
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> Regards,
> The IESG and the IRTF Chair
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