San Francisco, day 4

[mr_cellaneous]

• "Congratulations, Draft! Now you're a Working Group item!"
  
  The working group accepted my internet draft today, so it's on its way to becoming an RFC eventually. I'm pleased, but really a little surprised, because it's so dinky.
  
  Basically, what it says is that RFC 3315 has an ambiguity in it, which can be read in one of two ways, and we should read it this way. Which means, when you boil it down, my draft has one bit of information in it.
  
  Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there ought to be a rule that an RFC should contain at least as many bits of information as its RFC number. But hey, if nobody else minds, I won't kick up a fuss.
  
  
• After dinner (Chinatown again) I went to a "bar BOF", which is rather oddly named because it isn't held at a bar--I suppose the name must be a historical throwback or something. Anyway, it was an after-dinner meeting that was thrown together on an ad-hoc basis outside the regular IETF schedule to discuss contentious Secure DNS deployment issues. 30 people or so, sitting around a table in an overheated conference room, having a rip-roaring argument about picayune details of normative security policies and highly specific definitions of technological gibberish.
  
  It was SO. MUCH. FUN. Most people eventually drifted away, but my co-workers and I and a few other passionate and excitable participants stayed nearly an hour past the scheduled end of the meeting, then went out and the hallways and kept on arguing for another twenty minutes or so, then wandered back to our hotel room talking animatedly about what else we could maybe have an argument about now...?
  
  How completely cool is it that I get to have a job working with people who love this shit just as much as I do? My life rocks.
  
  
• I really miss my family though. Two more days...
  

Comments

[colonelhandsome.livejournal.com]

Except for the part about missing the family, that sounds just lovely.