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Wassim H. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Brim Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 9:37 AM To: Jari Arkko Cc: Internet Area Subject: Re: [Int-area] intarea charter Jari Arkko allegedly wrote on 10/12/2009 11:18 AM: > 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 ADs could show up and lead those discussions without having to chair the WG. > 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. Model #1 makes sense to me, for the positive and negative reasons you cite for both. It's much easier just to have one group. _______________________________________________ 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
