<html><head></head><body><div><div><p style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px" class="">Hi all,<br></p><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br></div><p style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px" class="">The IEPG (Internet Engineering and Planning Group) is an informal gathering that meets on the<span class=""> <span class=""><span class=""><span class="sh-date">Sunday</span></span></span></span> prior to IETF meetings. <br></p><div class=""><br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">The theme of these meetings is essentially one of operational relevance in some form or fashion - although the chairs will readily admit that they will run with an agenda of whatever is on offer at the time (especially if it isn't DNS or BGP :-)) <br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">These presentations / discussions are generally around things like problems discovered when deploying various protocols, interesting operational issues or deployments, interesting measurement results, fun things discovered while building networks, etc. It is more operationally focused than an IETF Working Group meeting. <br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br></div><p style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px" class="">Previous presentations are here:<span class=""> </span><a style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(84,172,220)" class="" href="http://www.iepg.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.iepg.org/</a><span class=""> </span><br></p><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">More info on the IEPG: RFC 1690 - <a style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(84,172,220)" class="" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1690" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1690</a> <br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">We will have remote participation through MeetEcho. <br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">If you have some sort of operationally relevant topic which you'd be willing to present, please let Chris Morrow (<<a style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(84,172,220)" class="" href="mailto:morrowc@ops-netman.net" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">morrowc@ops-netman.net</a>>) or me know.<br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Even though the meeting is still 56 days away, we already have one presentation lined up for you: "EH (Continued!)" by Nalini Elkins. I'm not saying this to boast, but rather to shame y'all into proposing a talk soon...<br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Thanks,<br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class="">Warren Kumari & Chris Morrow, IEPG Chairs.<br></div><div style="font-weight:400;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial" class=""><br></div></div><div></div><br><div class="gmail_signature"></div></div></body></html>