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Regards, Wassim H. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 15:00 To: Internet Area Subject: Re: [Int-area] intarea charter +1, but I think you should consider "hiring" a co-chair who isn't an AD at an early stage. It can get a bit awkward if a document is proposed for adoption that the ADs are unhappy about, unless there is an independent chair to make the consensus call. Regards Brian On 2009-10-01 07:44, Margaret Wasserman wrote: > > I support the idea of creating this WG, and the proposed charter looks > good to me. > > 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 >> >> ----- >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
