<html><head></head><body><div><div><p class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400;margin:0px">Hi all,<br></p><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400"><br></div><p class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400;margin:0px">The IEPG (Internet Engineering  and Planning Group) is an informal gathering that meets on the<span class=""> <span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class="sh-date">Sunday</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> prior to IETF meetings.  <br></p><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400"><br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400">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 :-)<br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400"><br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400">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 (and shouldn't be used just to present on your new draft).<br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400"><br></div><p class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400;margin:0px">Previous presentations are here:<span class=""> </span><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.iepg.org/" class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(84,172,220)">http://www.iepg.org/</a><span class=""> </span><br></p><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400">More info on the IEPG: RFC 1690 - <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1690" class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(84,172,220)">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1690</a> <br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400">We will have remote participation through MeetEcho. <br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400"><br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400">If you have some sort of operationally relevant topic which you'd be willing to present, please let Chris Morrow (<<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:morrowc@ops-netman.net" class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(84,172,220)">morrowc@ops-netman.net</a>>) or me know.<br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400"><br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400"><br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400">Thanks,<br></div><div class="" style="text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;font-weight:400">Warren Kumari & Chris Morrow, IEPG Chairs.<br></div></div><div></div><br><div class="gmail_signature"></div></div></body></html>