Re: London meeting logistics

["Matt Wakeley" <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>]

Since there are many people interested in both FC and non-FC IPS related
items, why not push the non-FC related (iSCSI) discussions to the same meeting
where the FC related items will be discussed?

Better to travel to one meeting instead of two...

-Matt

Black_David@emc.com wrote:
> 
> I've had several requests for information on the August
> meetings of the IPS WG in London.  This will be during
> the IETF meeting week, August 6-10. The meeting will be
> limited to iSCSI and related topics.  Fibre Channel-related
> topics, including FCIP and iFCP will be taken up in a
> separate interim meeting (possibly later in August)
> because the London IETF meeting week conflicts with
> the T11 meeting week.
> 
> Five hours (two 2.5 hour sessions) of meeting
> time has been requested on the assumption that we
> can almost certainly use it, but we may end up
> with less due to not being able to take up the
> Fibre Channel portion of our work and the expected
> heavy demand for meeting time.
> 
> At this point, no meeting schedule for London is available,
> and when one appears - please DO NOT take it seriously!!
> Draft schedules for IETF meetings are remarkably fluid
> documents - meeting times and dates can and do change as
> late as two weeks prior to the meeting week, as I've learned
> the hard way ;-).
> 
> The overall structure of the London IETF week should be similar
> to Minneapolis (http://www.ietf.org/meetings/agenda_50.html)
> - orientation talks and reception on Sunday, WG meetings
> all day Monday-Thursday, plus Monday evening and Friday
> morning.  Tuesday and Wednesday evenings are set aside
> for the social event and plenary sessions.  Of course,
> the dates/times of the various WG meetings in London will
> be completely different from those in Minneapolis.
> 
> One important difference from T10 and T11 meetings is that
> there's a separate registration fee - $450 in advance,
> $600 onsite.  One fee covers as many WG meetings as one
> wants to go to.  Since that fee pays for the meeting space,
> the hotel room block(s) are provided as a courtesy - unlike
> T10 and T11, there's no ethical duty to stay in a room
> block associated with the IETF meeting in order to help
> pay for the meeting space.
> 
> Thanks,
> --David
> 
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