<div dir="ltr">Hi Artyom,<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure why this thread hasn't gained any traction yet, but I think it's a good idea. I'm CCing Gergana from RIPE NCC External Relations so she can pass the suggestion along as well.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Best,</font></font></font></div><div><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">-Michael</font></font><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:20 AM, Artyom Gavrichenkov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ximaera@gmail.com" target="_blank">ximaera@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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During a call for papers for each meeting organized by RIPE NCC, a speaker<br>
is expected to provide an abstract for each submission of a plenary talk.<br>
These abstracts are then evaluated by the corresponding programme<br>
committee. They serve a purpose of providing an outline of the<br>
presentation, key points and topics covered in the talk.<br>
<br>
E.g. sometimes the title of a submission isn't in any way self-explanatory,<br>
but the abstract helps the programme committee members to quickly get an<br>
idea of what's going to be presented and whether it is relevant to the<br>
interests of the community.<br>
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However, these abstracts are not published together with the agenda, they<br>
aren't even available in the mailing list -- though even that would be sort<br>
of suboptimal in my opinion, but anyway -- they're just getting lost<br>
forever.<br>
<br>
I believe it would be much appreciated by the audience if those abstracts<br>
for accepted submissions are published on the Web site of a meeting<br>
together with plenary agenda. A title itself often doesn't tell the<br>
audience a lot about the content of the talk, while an abstract certainly<br>
does. Say, once we had a submission for the ENOG meeting -- accepted later<br>
for no less than an opening plenary session -- called "Operating a secure<br>
network" -- go figure!<br>
<br>
NANOG meetings, APRICOT and other conferences do maintain a policy of<br>
publishing this ahead of an event, along with the agenda. Maybe there's a<br>
solid reason why NCC avoids doing that? I don't know, but I'll be glad to<br>
figure out.<br>
<br>
Any opinions on this one?<br>
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