I do support chartering this WG, but I have some concern about the
milestone list...
I think it would be a good idea to get consensus in the intarea WG
(once formed) that these items should be adopted as WG work items, and
to determine that there is sufficient energy/interest to carry them
forward, before adding them to the milestone list, just as we would
with new items that are introduced in the future. This would save us
from the potential problem of having an item in the WG charter that
the WG doesn't have rough consensus to advance and/or doesn't have the
interest or energy to complete.
I also agree with comments about why it might be a better idea to
choose non-AD chairs.
Margaret
On Sep 30, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Jari Arkko wrote:
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
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