Hi, I believe this meeting has been very beneficial and useful in the sense that it is a little different than regular working groups:) It served as somewhat an open forum for exchanging/presenting new big ideas and things that is important to the internet, etc.
I do not mind moving this to a working group as long as we have another alternative with the same format. The fact that this meeting attracted quite huge audience is a testimony that it is doing some thing special! Regards, Ahmad > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jari Arkko > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:26 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
