I support creation of the WG for all the good reasons Jari listed below. --julien
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Jari Arkko > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:26 AM > To: Internet Area > Subject: [Int-area] intarea charter > > 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 _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
