Education (EDU) BOF IETF 57 – Vienna, Austria Margaret Wasserman

Purposes of this BOF Give the community visibility into our current educational activities Get feedback on our ideas to enhance and expand IETF educational activities Reach consensus on how these activities should be organized and run

Scope of this Discussion Internal education for IETF participants –Including newcomers, editors, WG chairs, etc. Focus on process and role education –Help people come-up-to-speed quickly and succeed in their roles and responsibilities –Includes technical training required to succeed in each role, such as security training NOT outward-facing education/tutorials NOT WG-specific training

EDU BOF Agenda Intro and Agenda Bashing – Margaret (5 min) Review Existing Programs and Resources – Margaret (10 min) Plans/Direction for Participant Education –Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min) –Security Tutorial – Radia Perlman (10 min) Plans/Direction for Editor Education – Avri Doria (10 min) Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education – Margaret (10 min) Organization Strawman – Margaret (10 min) Open Discussion (30 min) Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

Current Educational Activities Formal training classes –Participants Newcomer's training Security tutorial Occasional plenary presentations –Working Group Chairs Introductory training Topical training sessions

Current Educational Activities Web Resources –Overview web page –WG chairs web page Published Documents –"Tao of the IETF"

Education Pointers For Newcomers: – – For WG Chairs: – – Examples of Participant Training: – 3/index.html – 3/index.html

Current Organization Training resources have grown from different sources –IESG, secretariat, grass roots Informal group has started loosely coordinating these activities –No web presence, mailing list, etc. –Minimal community visibility and input

How can you help? Let us know what type of help you need –Your current educational needs –Things that would have helped you earlier Volunteer –For education team –To teach topical sessions –To help us develop materials, websites, etc.

EDU BOF Agenda Intro and Agenda Bashing – Margaret (5 min) Review Existing Programs and Resources – Margaret (10 min) Plans/Direction for Participant Education –Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min) –Security Tutorial – Radia Perlman (10 min) Plans/Direction for Editor Education – Avri Doria (10 min) Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education – Margaret (10 min) Organization Strawman – Margaret (10 min) Open Discussion (30 min) Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

Participant Education Plans/Ideas Margaret Wasserman

Newcomer's Session Newcomer's session held Sunday afternoon at every IETF Provides brief introduction to processes and culture of the IETF Historically developed and taught by the secretariat, now by Scott Bradner

Ideas for Participant Education Regular training sessions for participants –On process, culture, roles, timely topics or technical issues with wide impact –During plenaries or brown-bag lunches? Mentoring program –Formal or more informal Educational resources for non-North American participants

What do you think? Feedback on newcomer's training Ideas for participant education moving forward

EDU BOF Agenda Intro and Agenda Bashing – Margaret (5 min) Review Existing Programs and Resources – Margaret (10 min) Plans/Direction for Participant Education –Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min) –Security Tutorial – Radia Perlman (10 min) Plans/Direction for Editor Education – Avri Doria (10 min) Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education – Margaret (10 min) Organization Strawman – Margaret (10 min) Open Discussion (30 min) Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

EDU BOF Agenda Intro and Agenda Bashing – Margaret (5 min) Review Existing Programs and Resources – Margaret (10 min) Plans/Direction for Participant Education –Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min) –Security Tutorial – Radia Perlman (10 min) Plans/Direction for Editor Education – Avri Doria (10 min) Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education – Margaret (10 min) Organization Strawman – Margaret (10 min) Open Discussion (30 min) Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

WG Chairs Education Plans/Ideas Margaret Wasserman

Current WG Chair Education Formal training sessions –Introductory training, repeated each IETF –Topical sessions –Both held at WG chairs training lunches WG Chairs Web Site

Previous Discussions Group of WG chairs and IESG members met in SF to discuss WG chairs education –Feedback on current introductory training Has been incorporated into latest materials –Many other suggestions included here Identified need for editors training, as well Notes can be found at:

Ideas for WG Chairs Education Training sessions on timely topics Open discussion sessions WG Chairs FAQ WG Chairs mentoring program –Often covered by having two chair(s), including one with experience

EDU BOF Agenda Intro and Agenda Bashing – Margaret (5 min) Review Existing Programs and Resources – Margaret (10 min) Plans/Direction for Participant Education –Newcomer's and General -- Margaret (10 min) –Security Tutorial – Radia Perlman (10 min) Plans/Direction for Editor Education – Avri Doria (10 min) Plans/Direction for WG Chair Education – Margaret (10 min) Organization Strawman – Margaret (10 min) Open Discussion (30 min) Next Steps and Action Items (20 min)

Organization of the EDU Effort Margaret Wasserman

Scope of the Effort Internal education for IETF participants –Including newcomers, editors, WG chairs, etc. Focusing on process and role education –Help people come-up-to-speed quickly and succeed in their roles and responsibilities –Includes technical training required to succeed in each role

Nature of the Effort Web pages and web-based educational resources Regular classes, taught on an ongoing basis One-time sessions for ongoing participants Programs to help people come up-to-speed quickly and be successful in their roles

Not quite like an IETF WG Don't produce standards or technical docs "Customers" are internal, not external Materials and resources are not permanent Requires logistical coordination and tactical planning for each IETF meeting Need to update existing material and develop new material for each IETF

But, we do need… Community visibility –Web presence, open mailing list archives, periodic open meetings? Community feedback –Quality/relevance feedback from participants –Program/priority feedback from community Support/mandate from the community –To coordinate/manage these efforts

Organization Strawman Form an education team to run this effort –General AD appoints a leader –Leader and AD choose team from volunteers, refresh and expand the team as needed –Team membership publicly known

Community Visibility Feedback IETF web page for educational activities Public discussion mailing list Education team archives publicly available Occasional (~yearly?) open meetings at IETF

Comments or Questions?

Next Steps Do we have agreement on how this effort should be organized going forward? What are the top two or three priorities for this effort?