Hi,
I think it is a good idea to create the WG.
My main concern is that since by definition, the scope is loosely
defined, we may end up collecting documents that have little interest
(i.e. there were not enough interest to form a WG for instance, as
opposed to what i understand the goal is, to work on documents that
there is interest but don't have a clear home).
So, i think having a WG is fine, but it is very important to properly
measure the interest on working on each document adopted, since we may
end up having a collection of one man efforts in this context.
I think this does in line with the comments made by Margaret and i agree
with the clarifications made to these comments.
Regards, marcelo
Jari Arkko escribió:
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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