Looking at this recharter, the immediate question I had was "what has actually changed in the charter?" so I can figure out if I care.
I gather there is one very small change. But you'd have to be a WG insider to know this. Also, reading through the charter, it reads like it was written a year and a half ago (which it was), and parts of the text in the charter are OBE, so just reading the charter as is gives a misleading picture of where things currently stand. I guess I'm raising a bit of a meta point here that this recharter announcement is not very helpful to the general community, which seems bad. And if the charter needs to be updated, it really should be updated to reflect the current state of play. In particular: - it is not easy to figure out what has actually changed relative the current charter (this could have been handled by a short note providing context as part of the announcement). - it includes actions of the form "will do" that I believe have already been done. (e.g., there are 6 WG documents, not 4 as the charter suggests, the design team is presumably no longer driving this, as the documents are fully WG ones now, and the WG is not doing an "extended review" of the DT output, etc.) Now, I suspect that it was decided to minimize the amount of work needed to recharter and thus just update the one or two important sentences in the charter, and I sympathize with that desire. But I would also hope we could at least update it so that the average IETF reader (or anyone interested in IDNs for that matter) could read the charter and understand the current state of play. I don't think it would take a lot of effort to update it, and I'm not calling for any subtantive changes. They should all be editorial, so additional changes should not be controversial. IESG Secretary <iesg-secret...@ietf.org> writes: > Goals and Milestones: > Apr 2008 WG formation > May 2008 Decision on form and structure of the WG document set > Sep 2008 WG Last Call on WG document set > Nov 2008 IETF Last Call on WG document set Oops! Thomas _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf