Video Interest at IETF meetings
There are a lot of people who are doing video-related work, with and to Internet protocols at the IETF. Nonetheless, many people are not aware of each other’s efforts, if for no other reason than that the work winds up in different Areas — transport, security, art, and even routing.
Starting from the “Glass to Glass Internet Ecosystem” proposal BoFs and get togethers, we’ve been hosting informal “video interest group” (VIG) meetings during IETF weeks to bring people together so that there is greater awareness — of each other, of the work that’s being done. Our hope is that will help both the work being done, and the IETF as a whole. It can be pretty daunting to try to get one particular thing done in the IETF, and knowing that there are others interested in the outcome can be helpful. Also, the more we can raise awareness of general video interests at the IETF, the more likely the IETF is to recognize the need to address them.
Listed below are the relevant get togethers we’ve had at IETF meetings over the past few years.
| Video meeting | IETF | Date | # Attendees | Meeting Notes | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video Interest Group | IETF 104 (Prague) | Mar 2019 | 20 | VIG at IETF 104 notes | Agenda and available presentations are here: https://yana.techark.org/vig-at-ietf/vig-at-ietf-104-presentations/ |
| Video Interest Group | IETF 103 (Bangkok) | Nov 2018 | 16 | VIG at IETF 103 notes | Interest in the room to formalize the group |
| Video Interest Group | IETF 102 (Montreal) | Jul 2018 | 19 | VIG at IETF 102 notes | |
| Video Interest Group | IETF 101 (London) | Mar 2018 | 19 | No notes published | |
| Video Content Handling side meeting | IETF 100 (Singapore) | Nov 2017 | 16 | IETF 100 notes | |
| Streaming Video bar bof | IETF 99 (Prague) | Jul 2017 | 20 | IETF 99 notes | Advertised the session less broadly than IETF 98 |
| Streaming Video bar bof | IETF 98 (Chicago) | Mar 2017 | 62 | IETF 98 notes | Broadly advertised the session and had standing room only in the available room (estimated more than 70 actually attended) |
| GGIE at DISPATCH WG | IETF 96 (Berlin) | Jul 2016 | GGIE at IETF 96 DISPATCH WG | DISPATCH WG attendees largely in favour of IETF doing work on GGIE, in multiple areas | |
| GGIE Bar BoF | IETF 94 (Yokohama) | Nov 2015 | 14 | GGIE bar bof IETF 94 |