Thank you for all the comments that we received. They gave me at least a
lot of food for thought.
We will send out a new charter proposal soon, but first I would like to
get some input on direction we should take. This relates to the dual
nature of INTAREA, what work gets accepted, and who should manage the
group. As you all know, the group has so far dealt with both
area-ranging topics and documents. On some other areas these two
functions have been separated into different meetings, one area meeting
and another group for progressing documents. On some areas there is a
fairly large number of documents to handle as well, for us it has been a
little bit less.
I believe there are two possible paths forward. The first is to keep the
group still as one group. The benefit of this approach is that time can
be spent where it is most urgently needed, e.g., a large area-wide topic
could take an entire meeting slot. It would also be easy to deal with
topics that start out as area-wide discussions but result in a
recommendation in the form of an RFC (e.g., shared ISP address). Since
the group deals with documents along with everything else, we'd get
non-AD chairs who would also manage the area-wide discussions. That
would be with input from the ADs of course, and Ralph and I really keen
on delegating anyway so this would be fine with us.
The second possibility is to create two groups, a discussion forum and a
document development group. The benefit of this approach is that the two
roles are clearly separated and similar to what has been done on other
areas. Two sets of chairs would be needed, and at least the ones for the
document part would not be the ADs. A potential downside is that if we
create a new group in a place where we traditionally have not had that
much work, we might open an avenue for publishing unnecessary documents,
documents that were rejected by existing working groups or BOFs, etc.
Scheduling the two groups might also be harder than it is now, as the
time split between the two would be fixed.
Do you have any thoughts on which model would be preferable?
Jari
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