Minutes of the OPS Area open meetings in Prague - draft 2

I have included notes taken by Dave Harrington at the first meeting. 

I would welcome more comments and corrections before we turn these into the official version. 

Dan

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Meeting 1 - Monday March 19, 2007 15:20 to 17:20 

1. Meeting Administrivia

2. Introduction of new Area Director - Ron Bonica 

Dan - thanking David Kessens for his years of service as Area Director

3. Mini-BOF A: - Manageability and Operational Guidelines - David Harrington 

http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07mar/slides/opsarea-1.ppt

Discussions about the structure of the document - should the protocol evaluation be part of the document? 

4. Mini-BOF B: COPS push mode policy configuration - Tom Taylor and Tina Tsou  

http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07mar/slides/opsarea-3.ppt

Sharon Chisholm: why COPS? because COPS is (apparently) going away 
Unidentified : working at the ITU-T, still some interest 
Kevin Johnson: in the draft, not quite clear if a new message was used.
Tom: draft proposes a new message but could also use a flag, which is the less violent solution. Discussion