Hi all,

During a call for papers for each meeting organized by RIPE NCC, a speaker
is expected to provide an abstract for each submission of a plenary talk.
These abstracts are then evaluated by the corresponding programme
committee. They serve a purpose of providing an outline of the
presentation, key points and topics covered in the talk.

E.g. sometimes the title of a submission isn't in any way self-explanatory,
but the abstract helps the programme committee members to quickly get an
idea of what's going to be presented and whether it is relevant to the
interests of the community.

However, these abstracts are not published together with the agenda, they
aren't even available in the mailing list -- though even that would be sort
of suboptimal in my opinion, but anyway -- they're just getting lost
forever.

I believe it would be much appreciated by the audience if those abstracts
for accepted submissions are published on the Web site of a meeting
together with plenary agenda. A title itself often doesn't tell the
audience a lot about the content of the talk, while an abstract certainly
does. Say, once we had a submission for the ENOG meeting -- accepted later
for no less than an opening plenary session -- called "Operating a secure
network" -- go figure!

NANOG meetings, APRICOT and other conferences do maintain a policy of
publishing this ahead of an event, along with the agenda. Maybe there's a
solid reason why NCC avoids doing that? I don't know, but I'll be glad to
figure out.

Any opinions on this one?

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