Administrivia

[owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu]

Time and space has been requested in Pittsburgh.  Date
and time will be forthcoming, one two hour slot is
expected.

Your future co-chairs and ADs are editing the charter
as I write this.  Expect an initial version to appear
for further comment on the list sometime early next week.

Another thing that will happen next week will be initial
assembly of the agenda for the meeting.  For those who
want time on the agenda at the meeting in Pittsburgh,
submission of an Internet-Draft is highly recommended.
While there's no guarantee that everyone who submits a
draft will be on the agenda, no draft almost certainly
implies no agenda slot.  So, I'd ask those who desire
time on the agenda to please send me an email indicating
the topic, the title and filename of the draft, and the
name and email of the presenter.

A few matters for those who may not have written
Internet-Drafts before:
- Please read the Guidelines to Authors of Internet-Drafts
	at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt .
- In particular, note the requirements there for boilerplate
	text on the first page, including the required
	reference to RFC 2026.  Drafts without the
	required boilerplate will be returned.
- Since ips is not yet a working group, there are no such
	things as ips working group drafts, and hence names
	of the form draft-ietf-ips- ... are not appropriate.
	Drafts should be sent as individual submissions;
	a useful convention is to use the WG acronym as the
	third word of the draft name.  For example, if
	this email were turned into an Internet-Draft, one
	possible name would be draft-black-ips-administrivia-00.txt .
- The draft deadline is next Friday (7/14) at 5pm Eastern Time.
	The deadline is absolute, and what counts is whether
	the draft is received by the deadline, not whether
	it was sent and got hung up in email.  Submitting
	drafts hours/days earlier is a good idea, and authors
	in California should remember that the deadline is
	Eastern time, *not* Pacific time.  I'd ask those who
	submit drafts close to the deadline, to please
	consider posting a copy on a web site somewhere and
	sending the URL to the list; this helps with
	the fact that there can be a multi-day processing
	backlog for last-minute draft submissions.

My apologies for using email bandwidth for administrivia, but
this is occasionally necessary.

--David

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