BOFs
Birds of a Feather meetings (BOFs) are informal meetings that are convened for a variety of purposes such as exchanging information and discussing new ideas or particular issues. They can be proposed and convened at short notice and there is no formal requirement for submission of papers or posting to mailing lists (however, the results of BOFs are reported to the Member Meeting session of each APNIC Meeting).
BOFs serve as a means to conduct ad hoc and informal meetings, and also as a useful means to gauge interest in a particular topic or idea before the establishment of a new SIG.
BOFs are also an important part of the process of forming a new Special Interest Group (SIG). When a new SIG has been recommended, a preliminary BOF should be held to determine interest in the proposed subject area, the readiness of individuals to volunteer as chair, and to develop a charter. A new SIG cannot be created unless a BOF has been held.
BOF | APNIC conferences where BOFs have met |
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APNIC Foundation | 42 | 43 |
APOPs | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 12 |
Certificate Authority (CA)/PKI | 23 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
Community Trainers | 45 |
Cooperation SIG (PPAC) | 38 |
CRISP/EPP | 19 | 17 |
Data Gathering and Analysis | 45 | 44 | 43 |
Disaster preparedness | 40 |
Discussion with IPv6 CE vendors | 44 |
Distributed DNS | 14 |
DNS variant management | 40 |
Exchange points Note: Internet Exchange Point discussions now take place at APIX meetings held at APNIC conferences. |
10 |
Fellows | 44 | 42 |
Fighting badness on the Internet though DMARC and DNS | 44 |
Internet Routing Registry | 14 |
Internet self-regulation | 10 |
IPv6 Readiness Measurement | 42 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 38 | 37 | 36 |
IPv4 address leasing | 37 |
ISIF Asia | 45 |
Membership agreement | 11 | 10 |
Membership petition | 30 |
Mobile technology | 40 |
Multihoming techniques | 10 |
Network abuse | 38 | 37 | 33 | 32 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 12 |
Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) | 40 | 37 |
PGP Keysigning Party | 23 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 10 |
RPKI routing | 34 |
Training | 22 | 12 |
Weirds BoF | 35 |
Youth program | 38 |