Changing an interim agenda puts the interim in an unrecoverable state

[DavidSchinazi]

Describe the issue

As WG chair, I was working on preparing the WEBBOTAUTH interim interim-2026-webbotauth-01. I went in to update the agenda for the meeting and the datatracker replied:

An error occurred while creating a Meetecho conference. The interim meeting request has been created without complete remote participation information. Please edit the request to add this or contact the secretariat if you require assistance.

Before I made that change, the interim page would say:

Remote instructions: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/interim/?session=35206

But once I changed the agenda the interim page started showing the Remote instructions as empty.

I had to contact the Secretariat to resolve the issue. They then had to delete the original session and create a new one. This all caused a lot of spam on the mailing list: (emails one two three) which led to confusion amongst participants. Now we also have two interims listed instead of one, as interim-2026-webbotauth-01 was replaced with interim-2026-webbotauth-02.

I recommend disabling the ability to edit agendas until the datatracker stops putting meetings in such an unrecoverable state.

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the IETF's Code of Conduct

[DavidSchinazi]

I'm realizing that this also lost all the slides because they were attached to the meeting that was cancelled. This is a pretty terrible state of affairs.

[DavidSchinazi]

In case it's helpful, the way I modified the agenda was by clicking "Meeting Details" and "Edit" then I modified the agenda in the text box and clicked "Submit"

[DavidSchinazi]

This issue then broke Meetecho for our interim to the point we had to use Zoom. See here.