Preparations for the first ENS infrastructure workshop in London, August 11–13, are proceeding well! We’ve locked down the attendee list (no more spaces left, sorry!) and sorted out sponsorships (thanks to the EF, Aragon, Bancor, CryptoCompare and status.im for making this possible).

Recording & Broadcast

Due to popular demand, we’re making arrangements to record and broadcast the entire event via Hangouts on Air. To make sure you catch them, subscribe to the ENS channel on YouTube.

Schedule

We’ve been taking feedback from attendees, while trying to keep the schedule reasonably flexible. Friday’s schedule is:

0930–1000: Welcome & State of the ENS

Welcome & State of the ENS 1000–1030: Taylor talks about MEW’s experiences with ENS

Taylor talks about MEW’s experiences with ENS 1030–1100: Dan talks about Metamask’s experiences with ENS

Dan talks about Metamask’s experiences with ENS 1100–1200: Discussion: ENS soft launch postmortem

Discussion: ENS soft launch postmortem 1200–1300: Lunch

Lunch 1300–1445: Discussion: Dispute resolution: What & How?

Discussion: Dispute resolution: What & How? 1500–1645: Discussion: Dispute resolution: Technical considerations

Discussion: Dispute resolution: Technical considerations 1700–1730: Session Planning for Saturday

Session Planning for Saturday 1800-: Social evening at Temple Brew House

We’re trying to remain fairly flexible, so haven’t planned out the entire weekend in detail; our goal is to adjust according to what attendees found under-discussed, and to add sessions for topics that come up at the time. Sessions that are lined up but not yet scheduled:

Talk: Securing ENS names and addresses, by Jim McDonalds

Securing ENS names and addresses, by Jim McDonalds Talk: ENS and Package Management, by Piper Merriam

ENS and Package Management, by Piper Merriam Workshop: DNS-on-ENS

DNS-on-ENS Workshop: Ongoing governance of the root

Ongoing governance of the root Workshop: Permanent registrar desiderata

Permanent registrar desiderata Workshop: Registration mechanisms for the permanent registrar

We’d really appreciate feedback from the community; what do you want to see discussed that is under-represented here? What’s of critical importance to you for the future of ENS?

Social events

Friday night is an ENS-centric social event sponsored by Aragon, at the Temple Brew House. Anyone is welcome to attend; RSVP here while space is available. We may make additional spaces available later once we are certain as to space limitations.

State of the ENS

The next State of the ENS will be presented first as the opening session of the workshop, followed by a post on Medium. This time around, we’ll be making the raw event data available beforehand, so people can assemble their own analyses of the ENS launch and initial post-launch period. Keep an eye out on this publication for details in coming days.