The IETF Administration LLC (IETF LLC) is soliciting proposals ("Proposals") to build an Automatic Scheduler for IETF and IRTF. The RFP is located at: https://ietf.org/about/administration/rfps/
Please note the following timeline: Timeline 13 Sep: RFP Issued 20 Sep: Questions and Inquiries deadline 23 Sep: Answers to questions issued, RFP Addenda and Update issued 30 Sep: Proposals due 07 Oct: Selection made, negotiations begin 18 Oct: Contract execution 28 Oct: Work begins Overview There are roughly 130 Working Groups and Research Groups focusing on different topics. Three times a year, around 100 of these working groups meet in person for a week. The IETF Secretariat develops a schedule for these groups to meet in, ensuring the groups have rooms of appropriate size, the right resources, and with appropriate meeting duration. The schedule development process minimizes conflicts between the meeting groups. The goal of this project is to automatically produce one or more possible Schedules for the IETF Secretariat. These Schedules will ensure that the resources required exist in the Room into which each Session is scheduled. The Schedules will also minimize the declared conflicts between groups scheduled at the same time. The relative weights of the conflicts must be configurable, with the initial configuration prioritizing 1st priority conflicts higher than 2nd priority conflicts, and 2nd priority conflicts higher than 3rd priority, and 3rd priority conflicts higher than the people who must be present. (Note the relabelling of these constraints for IETF 106. This project will be agnostic to that, simply working with the Conflict types, with the initial configuration listed above. When the new Conflict types are added, the configuration this project provides will allow their relative priorities to be configured). This project will also provide a mechanism for the IETF Secretariat to capture the constraints mentioned above that are not yet modeled, such as “SAAG always meets in the first afternoon session on Thursday”. These constraints will initially have a priority configuration stronger than 1st priority conflicts. Each produced Schedule should show a computed value that indicates the severity of the set of remaining conflicts. Please reply with questions, if any, and a bid if you are interested in pursuing this opportunity to ietf-r...@ietf.org. Thanks in advance. Portia Wenze-Danley IETF LLC Interim Executive Director _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce