Welcome to the Plenary

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Welcome to the Plenary

• Harald AlvestrandIETF chair

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Our Agenda

• 1930 Welcome, and Thanks for coming              
      
• 1940 Bruce Schneier Fixing Network Security
  by Hacking the Business Climate
• 2025 Thomas Narten How to interpret the I-D
  tracker
• 2045 Harald Alvestrand Others
  Evolutionizing the IETF
• 2130 IESG Open Mike

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Who We Were This Time

• 1706 attendees
• Yokohama 1889
• Minneapolis 1656
• 34 countries
• 344 companies
• Stilll working.

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Special Thanks To

• Our Host (Nokia) and its people
• The Secretariat Staff (the usual miracles)
• The Networking Folks (a most capable crowd)

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Future meetings

• Spring IETF San Francisco
• March 16-21, 2003
• No local host no terminals
• Summer IETF Vienna, Austria
• Vienna, Austria
• Host Telekom Austria
• Fall IETF Not known yet.....
• November 9-14 or 16-21, 2003 (tentative)

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Some things that have happened recently

• Intellectual Property
• We are almost finished clarifying our rules
• We still havent changed them
• Nomcom
• Rule clarification nearly finished
• IESG procedures
• I-D tracker made to facilitate IESG work
• Public view made available to all

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Talk to us!

• The IETF is YOUR show.
• The open mike is for YOU to tell US what to do
• Welcome to the IETF!

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Topics Raised At Open Mike