All, We have had Internet Area meetings for a number of years now, but I'm not sure if anyone's noticed that its formally just a meeting and not an official working group. We do have a list, we talk about important topics during the meetings, and sometimes we even progress documents that have no obvious home elsewhere. We run working group last calls, but formally the documents that we take forward are AD sponsored individual submissions.
Ralph and I have reviewed the situation and we think that it would be useful to turn the group into an official working group. This has a number of benefits: - the group would show up in the tools.ietf.org/wg/<WG> directory and other systems - we'd have a charter that describes to everyone what the group is supposed to talk about - the process would be clearer for, say, adopting a document - the ADs would get also a blue dot in their IETF badges :-) or depending on workload, we could hire other chairs, secretaries, and so on to help with the group In other words, the group wouldn't be such a special case for us to deal with. Thoughts? We have included a suggested charter below. Jari and Ralph ----- Internet Area Working Group (intarea) Last modified: 2009-09-30 Chairs: Jari Arkko <[email protected]> Ralph Droms <[email protected]> Internet Area (int) Directors: Jari Arkko <[email protected]> Ralph Droms <[email protected]> Internet Area Advisor: Jari Arkko <[email protected]> Ralph Droms <[email protected]> Mailing Lists: General Discussion: [email protected] Subscribe online at: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area Description of Working Group: The Internet Area Working Group (INTAREA WG) acts as a forum for discussing far-ranging topics that affect the entire area. Such topics include, for instance, address space issues, basic IP layer functionality, and architectural questions. The Internet Area receives occasional proposals for the development and publication of RFCs that are not in scope of an existing working group and do not justify the formation of a new working group. The INTAREA WG will also serve as the forum for developing such work items in the IETF. The working group milestones are updated as needed to reflect the current work items and their associated milestones. Significant new work items will be brought for approval with the IESG. Milestones: December 2009 Submission of IPID document to the IESG as PS March 2010 Submission of tunneling issues document to the IESG as Info December 2010 Submission of SEAL document to the IESG as Exp _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
