IETF Working Group Status for ipdvb (Feb 2004)

[Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk>]

Welcome everyone!

You may have noted the (triple!) posting from the IESG, announcing that 
this is now an official IETF mailing list in the Internet Area:
http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/ip-dvb/archive/msg00509.html


This announcement has several implications, including:

(i) You ARE ALREADY subscribed to this mailing list, and we are pleased 
to have you on-board. If you do wish to be a member of the IETF ipdvb 
WG, you must now  UNSUBSCRIBE from the list by sending an email to 
major-domo@erg.abdn.ac.uk with the following in the body of the message: 
unsubscribe ip-dvb.


(ii) I am obliged to remind you that you MUST comply with the IETF 
note-well governing disclosure and IPR, as stated at:
http://www.ietf.org/overview.html


(iii This WG is now permitted to request a meeting slot at an IETF 
meeting, although of course the IETF primarily functions through its 
mailing lists, and (unlike many other organisations) meetings are NOT 
required to approve documents.


(iv) We have NOT requested a meeting for ipdvb at the Seoul IETF (later 
this month). There are several reasons for this: - I am also keen to 
avoid calling a meeting with the same Agenda as the last two BoF 
meetings (several authors were also unable to make it) - I believe we 
can make significant progress for the following IETF (August 1-6, San 
Diego) and I do recommend you put this date in your diary straight away!!
http://www.ietf.org/meetings/0mtg-sites.txt


(v) We need to revive the work on our charter items:
   - In the first place this will mean consideration of the ULE 
Internet Draft for adoption as a working group item, for those 
unfamiliar, I will explain this process later in the week.
   - We also have a number of implementations of ULE, we shall be 
opening a new part of the web site to document the progress of these 
implementations.
   - We need to review/update/modify the requirements document to 
reflect the needs of this WG.

Best wishes,


Gorry Fairhurst
(ipdvb chair)


P.S. Some people may have noted that the IETF web page for the ipdvb WG 
displays a shortened form of the original proposed WG name (that simply 
expands the acronym). I am checking with the AD to see if the original 
name is still allowed, and will tell you progress.
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html