For those unable to attend the meeting today, I took
some notes during the open NANOG Community meeting
this evening. Slides went past very quickly, so apologies
for the gaps in some of the slide contents, or for typos that
crept in due to the speed with which things progressed.
Now off to the evening reception. :)
Matt
2008.02.17 NANOG 42 Community meeting notes
Room gets fairly packed fairly quickly.
Call to order is made at 1738 hours Pacific Time
Philip Smith is steering committee chair, and
have been since end of October to October of this
year.
Agenda
Steering comittee report
philip
programme committee report
todd
mail list comittee report
alex
merit report
Jason (for alex rosens...() who is sick)
open discussion
There are open microphones, so if you have
questions, feel free to use them for questions;
state your name, as the session is being recorded,
and speak into the mike so we don't have to repeat
questions.
Steering comittee
Betty Burke (for merit)
Randy Bush
Steve Feldman (elected in oct)
Jared Mauch(elected in oct)
Chris Morrow(
Alex Pilosov
Joe Provo
Philip Smith
Todd Underwood (ex-officio, PC)
Farewell and thank you to Bill Norton and Joe Abley
All recognizable via blue badges, hopefully, for
the steering comittee (well, except ex-officios)
Highlights since NANOG41
Charter ammendments approved and implemented
nanog.org/charter.html
2007-01: addition of MLC chair as ex-officio member of
the steering committee
2007-02: editorial consistency in MLC nomenclature
2007-03: removal of text specifying various internal
processes to be followed within the PC, in the
interests of avoiding micromanagement
Now MLC really is MLC, a comittee, not just a manager.
Selection of PC members
Chris Morrow serves as ex-officio on PC
MLC brought up to 6 members
MLC Chair now serves as ex-officio on SC
NANOG infrastructure migration
all but main list and website to do
dedicated server for NANOG, futures mailing list is on
new system already; main list ready for migration now.
Preparations for NANOG42
Preparations for future NANOGs
18 month planning horizon is a goal
SC holds fortnightly telephone conference calls
Minutes published:
http://www.nanog.org/sc.minutes07.html
http://www.nanog.org/sc.minutes08.html
There's not much feedback, so please read and
feedback.
mailing lists:
nanog@nanog.org
engineering/ops discussions
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
discussion about NANOG list itself
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to contact the steering committee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
contact the PC committe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
contact the mailing list admins
Wow. That's pretty confusing.
268 on the nanog-futures list, vs several thousand on
the main list.
>From Philip over to Todd now.
No slides from here.
Best attended NANOG since the bust, 558 attendees
so far.
Will try to figure out why people are showing up
again.
The PC members are under general info/program committee
on the website, bios are up there if you want to know
more; includes academics, small companies, big companies,
we try to get a cross section of the community.
how does it work? People submit talks, but not early
enoug, they talk about them, they put minutes up for
review, they talk more about the talks, and they reject
those they don't have time for or are blatant sales
talks. The submissions are getting better again.
Would LOVE to see more talks from actual operators
about actual incidents, migrations, attacks, etc.
that will really help the other operators.
It doesn't matter if they're not as polished; even
if you're not sure if it'll be a great talk, come
talk to the PC members (yellow badges), they'll help
mentor you through the process.
Talk submissions closed, and as soon as they closed,
8 or 10 really good talks came in--you REALLY need
to start submitting them as soon as the previous
NANOG closes!
Joel Jaegli from program comittee comments that
even if you just have an idea for a talk, even if
you don't think you can do it, it can be used as a
straw man for development. If you think you're
lazy and irresponsible, you can work with the PC
to get the talk developed.
Ted notes that if you have a good idea for the PC,
submit your idea, don't wait. He really wants to
see people submit sooner rather than later. The
volume of garbage is amazing. He would prefer to
rate good stuff rather than garbage.
Thank you, for corollary B from Ted Seely; if you
don't submit crap for review, don't complain about
the shit you have to sit through. :)
Todd notes you can bounce ideas off the PC members
today, and can help couple people up to do joint
talks.
They are publishing minutes of the meetings, but
there's little evidence people actually read them.
OK, some people do read them. So they'll continue
to put them up.
Lightening talks are open; you just need an abstract
and a few points for getting a slot. Submit them
and for PC members, vote on the current submissions!
V6 only hour, you saw publicity, etc; you won't
