IPS WG meeting(s) update

[Black_David@emc.com]

Here's an important update on future IPS WG meetings:

(1) The August IETF meeting week in London is at the
	same time as the T11 meetings in Hawaii.  This
	makes it impossible to take up Fibre Channel-
	related work during the August IPS WG meeting(s)
	in London, and hence those meeting(s) will
	focus on getting at least the basic iSCSI
	protocol draft (and others as feasible/necessary
	- the naming and discovery draft is likely) as
	close to ready for Last Call as possible.

(2) There will be an FC-focused interim meeting sometime
	after the London meetings that will focus on
	getting the basic FC-related protocol drafts ready
	for last call.  The Area Directors have suggested
	that IPS-wide security architecture and protocol
	selection would also be an appropriate topic for
	that meeting, so the structure may be a day or
	so on the FC-related drafts and the better part
	of a day on security.  The date(s) and location
	will be announced in the next few weeks.

I want to extend apologies on behalf of Elizabeth and
myself for comments made in Nashua about other possible
interim meeting dates and locations, especially if they've
mislead anyone into making plans that now need to be changed.
IETF interim meetings require the approval of the Area
Directors, and after consultation with the ADs, the
above plan is what we're going to do.  It does have
the merit that we don't have to try to get all of the
protocols into a close to done state at the same meeting
in London (whew!).

Thanks and sorry,
--David

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