Re: I-D Action:draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-04.txt

2011-03-15 Thread Brian Carpenter
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:33 AM, James M. Polk jmp...@cisco.com wrote:

 Brian

 playing devil's advocate here...

 Say someone submits a request for an existing DS to the IESG and it takes
 6 months (or 3 months) to get through the process, but only 2 months remain
 before the 2 year window is up (since this RFC was published). Does that
 grandfather the DS into the process - meaning that document is no longer
 subject to this 'within 2 year notice' rule?

 I'm just saying that this appears to beg all DS editors to get their DS
 notifications into the IESG sooner rather than later, which is fine, but
 that also creates a heck of a workload on the IESG that they currently do
 not have, does it not?

 Something is going to be impacted.

 Make it a 2 year deadline for receiving requests. Problem solved.

Yes, good idea.

 Brian
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Re: I-D Action:draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-04.txt

2011-03-15 Thread Brian Carpenter
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev
evniki...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 2011/3/14, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com:
 There are numerous improvements in this version and I hope we
 can get consensus soon.

 Just a couple of remarks on
  5. Transition to a Standards Track with Two Maturity Levels

 1) Probably there should be a statement that all existing
Internet Standard documents are still classified as Internet Standard.
That may seem blindingly obvious, but if we don't write it down,
somebody will ask.

 2) More substantively,

Any protocol or service that is currently at the Draft Standard
 maturity level may be reclassified as an Internet Standard as soon as
 the criteria in Section 2.2 are satisfied. This reclassification is
 accomplished by submitting a request to the IESG along with a
 description of the implementation and operational experience. 

 I'm a bit concerned that this doesn't scale, and we will be left
 with a long tail of DS documents that end up in limbo. One way to avoid
 this is to encourage bulk reclassifications (rather like we did a bulk
 declassification in RFC 4450). Another way is to define a sunset date,
 e.g.

Any documents that are still classified as Draft Standard two years
after the publication of this RFC will be automatically downgraded
to Proposed Standard.

 I'm personally not sure whether such operations will be acceptable.
 If there is a Draft Standard, it means that it is more mature that
 Proposed Standrad.  Therefore downgrading DSs to PSs does not seem a
 good idea personally for me.  It is better to say that DSs should
 remain in this maturity level until properly advanced to FS, obsoleted
 or moved to Historic status.

All our experience shows that unless we have a firm sunset date, the job
will never be finished and in fifty years there will still be DS documents.

If nobody cares - the document will be downgraded. What's the problem
with that? It will still be on the standards track.

(Automatic downgrading to Historic would be a different matter.)

 Brian
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Re: I-D Action:draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-04.txt

2011-03-15 Thread Brian Carpenter
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:13 AM, Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote:

 On 3/14/2011 2:05 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

 2) More substantively,

Any protocol or service that is currently at the Draft Standard
 maturity level may be reclassified as an Internet Standard as soon as

 the criteria in Section 2.2 are satisfied. This reclassification is

 accomplished by submitting a request to the IESG along with a
 description of the implementation and operational experience. 

 I'm a bit concerned that this doesn't scale, and we will be left
 with a long tail of DS documents that end up in limbo. One way to avoid
 this is to encourage bulk reclassifications (rather like we did a bulk
 declassification in RFC 4450). Another way is to define a sunset date,
 e.g.

Any documents that are still classified as Draft Standard two years
after the publication of this RFC will be automatically downgraded
to Proposed Standard.


 Brian,

 Certainly a reasonable concern.  However...

 1.  While the accounting ugliness of leaving these untouched is obvious, I
 am less clear about the practical trouble they cause.  We should gain some
 public agreement that this is seriousness enough to worry about, and why.

 2. Automatic reclassification strikes me as dangerous and likely to have
 serious unintended consequences.  I believe we do not have a history of
 having done anything like this, in spite of our rules, except for aging out
 I-Ds.

 3. Your's specific proposal assumes ready availability of workers for
 documents that are used.  In fact, the folks who use specs are often far
 removed from the IETF and neither aware of IETF activities nor available to
 contribute to them. This is an example of a downside likely to downgrade
 docs inappropriately, IMO.

 Alas, I don't have a constructive, alternative suggestion.

There's a fairly obvious alternative, which is to shrug about the widespread
deployment rule and promote all existing DS automatically to Internet Standard.

That wouldn't shock me - and it would be a lot less work for everybody.
We could still require widespread deployment for future documents.

 Brian
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ION approved

2007-03-20 Thread Brian Carpenter
An IETF Operational Note has been approved and posted:

http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions/ion-ad-sponsoring.html
This note discusses the process related to individual submissions,
publication of RFCs by finding a sponsoring Area Director to take it
through IETF and Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) review. This
note covers both the the processing in the IESG as well as guidance on
when such sponsoring is appropriate.

For the general ION page, see
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions.html


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Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-21 Thread Brian Carpenter
This last call technically expires today. Since there were
objections to only holding a two week last call, it won't
be on the IESG agenda before March 8, and comments on
the substance are still most welcome.

I will be asking the IESG to consider whether it should
be published as an ION rather than as an RFC.

Brian (as General AD)

On 2007-02-07 16:20, The IESG wrote:
 The IESG has received a request from the Internet Engineering Steering 
 Group (iesg) to consider the following document:
 
 - 'Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents '
draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines-01.txt as an Informational RFC
 
 The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
 final comments on this action.  Please send substantive comments to the
 ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2007-02-21. Exceptionally, 
 comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please 
 retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
 
 The file can be obtained via
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines-01.txt
 
 
 IESG discussion can be tracked via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_iddTag=15381rfc_flag=0
 

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ion-agenda-and-minutes open for public comment

2007-01-31 Thread Brian Carpenter
An ION (IETF Operational Note, see RFC 4693) is open for public comment
on the ietf@ietf.org list. Comments should be sent by 2007-02-12.

Note that some early reviewers have suggested that this document
is not really needed, since IETF minutes are already of a
good enough standard. Opinions on this point are welcome.

Please see
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions/drafts/ion-agenda-and-minutes.html

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ion-procdocs open for public comment

2007-01-31 Thread Brian Carpenter
An ION (IETF Operational Note, see RFC 4693) is open for public comment
on the ietf@ietf.org list. Comments should be sent by 2007-02-12.

Please see
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions/drafts/ion-procdocs.html

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ion-procdocs open for public comment

2007-01-29 Thread Brian Carpenter
An ION (IETF Operational Note, see RFC 4693) is open for public comment
on the ietf@ietf.org list. Comments should be sent by 2007-02-12.

Please see
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions/drafts/ion-procdocs.html

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ion-agenda-and-minutes open for public comment

2007-01-29 Thread Brian Carpenter
An ION (IETF Operational Note, see RFC 4693) is open for public comment
on the ietf@ietf.org list. Comments should be sent by 2007-02-12.

Note that some early reviewers have suggested that this document
is not really needed, since IETF minutes are already of a
good enough standard. Opinions on this point are welcome.

Please see
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions/drafts/ion-agenda-and-minutes.html

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Re: Routing Addressing -- activities (BOF)

2006-12-21 Thread Brian Carpenter
As part of the routing and addressing activities, a BOF is planned
during IETF 68, as a plenary activity (day and time to be
announced later). This will be tracked in the BOF wiki at 
http://www1.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/wiki

Details so far:

   * ROAP
  o ROuting and Addressing Problem BOF
  o Joint with Internet Area; will be a plenary session
  o Status: preliminary discussions
  o Background: RAWS report
  o Responsible ADs: Ross Callon, Mark Townsley 

Ross and Mark will be collecting proposals for the goals
and content of the BOF.

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Looking for another IESG scribe

2006-12-20 Thread Brian Carpenter
The IESG's informal narrative minutes can be found at
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/iesg-narrative.html

These minutes rely on volunteer scribes, who join the IESG
teleconferences to take notes. We would like to appoint
a third scribe, to reduce the load on Spencer Dawkins
and Marshall Eubanks. If you think you have the necessary
skills, and a few hours per month available, please
write to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] by January 12th.

   Brian Carpenter, for the IESG

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ion-ion-store open for public comment

2006-12-15 Thread Brian Carpenter
An ION (IETF Operational Note, see RFC 4693) is open for public comment
on the ietf@ietf.org list. Comments should be sent by 2006-12-31.

Please see
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions/drafts/ion-ion-store.html 

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ion-ion-format open for public comment

2006-12-15 Thread Brian Carpenter
An ION (IETF Operational Note, see RFC 4693) is open for public comment
on the ietf@ietf.org list. Comments should be sent by 2006-12-31.

Please see
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions/drafts/ion-ion-format.txt 

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Updated charter and strengthened leadership for EDU team

2006-10-06 Thread Brian Carpenter
The charter of the EDU team has been updated; please see
http://edu.ietf.org/

I'm glad to welcome Margaret Wasserman as co-leader of the team
with Avri Doria.

  Brian Carpenter
  General Area Director

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IETF Journal 2.2 published

2006-10-04 Thread Brian Carpenter
See http://www.isoc.org/tools/blogs/ietfjournal/?cat=9

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The BOF wiki

2006-09-20 Thread Brian Carpenter
http://www1.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/wiki

This is a best-efforts attempt to track BOF requests (not approved BOFs,
which will be in the official agenda). If you're aware of a BOF request
that isn't listed, please contact the relevant Area Director for status.

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Reminder - BOF proposal deadline is Monday September 18

2006-09-16 Thread Brian Carpenter
September 18, Monday - Cutoff date for requests to schedule Working Group
meetings and for preliminary BOF proposals to ADs at 17:00 ET (21:00
UTC/GMT). To request a Working Group session, use the IETF Meeting Session
Request Tool

September 25, Monday - Cutoff date for requests to schedule BOFs at 17:00
ET (21:00 UTC/GMT).

All deadlines are listed at
http://www.ietf.org/meetings/67-cutoff_dates.html

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How to receive IESG agendas by email

2006-09-11 Thread Brian Carpenter
Hi,

There is a new mailing list that anyone can join in order to receive
advance notice of the upcoming IESG agenda. One week before each official
IESG teleconference, the draft agenda will be sent to this list, once as
an ASCII message and once as an HTML message containing relevant links.

This isn't new information, since the agenda is always posted (and
updated) at http://www.ietf.org/IESG/agenda.html. However, various people
have expressed a desire to receive an email version, so here it is.

Please feel free to join the list via this URL:

https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/iesg-agenda-dist

It's not a discussion list, so only the Secretariat can post.

  Brian Carpenter

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IESG response and questions to the normative reference experiment (draft-klensin-norm-ref-01.txt)

2006-09-05 Thread Brian Carpenter
[Discussion invited on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The IESG received a request under RFC 3933 to run
draft-klensin-norm-ref-01.txt as an experiment in loosening the IETF's
requirements for normative references in RFCs.

The experiment is composed of two parts.  The first part allows
approved Internet Drafts to reference RFCs at a lower level of
maturity, provided that a note explaining the reference is added.  One
way of looking at this is that it relaxes the requirements for
normative downreferences in RFC 3967.  The IESG believes that there is
sufficient support for this part of the experiment that simply writing
a BCP is a better approach than running an experiment.

The second part of the experiment proposes that RFCs be allowed to
contain normative down references to approved Internet Drafts that
have not yet been published as RFCs.

According to RFC 3933, the IESG must make a determination of whether
an experiment is plausibly useful before it is approved.
   The IESG
   can institute whatever procedures it wishes to make this determination
   and to avoid denial of service attacks from large numbers of spurious
   or unimportant proposals.  In particular, they might institute a
   procedure requiring a number of endorsements, or endorsements of a
   particular type, before the IESG considers the proposal.  The IESG is,
   however, expected to understand that procedures or review processes
   that act as a mechanism for significant delays do not fall within the
   intent of this specification.

The IESG is new to RFC 3933 experiments and like the rest of the
community is still trying to figure out how to evaluate these
experiments.  In this instance, the IESG issued a last call and the
discussion focused around the question of whether it would be a good
idea if the IETF tried this experiment.  The consensus was by no means
clear-cut.  The IESG believes it is likely that after more
definition, we could eventually get to an experiment for which there
is community consensus.

However the question of plausibly useful includes aspects that were
not adequately considered during the last call.  In particular, while
discussing how to move forward, the IESG realized it had never
actually considered who would use the second part of the experiment.
When queried, no area director indicated a specific desire to use the
experiment to reference an approved Internet Draft from an RFC.

The IESG believes the second part of this experiment is unlikely to be
useful unless there are IESG members that find it sufficiently
compelling to invest time in trying to use the experiment.

In the future, it may be desirable to ask for specific intentions of IESG
members for experiments that would only be successful with the active
participation of some IESG members.  The question is: are there IESG
members who have a specific need for the proposed experiment and are
going to use this proposal in real life?  This should not be used to block
efforts for change with very strong community support.  However it is
appropriate to use such endorsements to focus our efforts especially
when consensus is mixed or when there are a lot of efforts on the
table.  The IESG realizes that it needs to be responsive to the
community.  The IESG also trusts that we all realize that change where
there is active, eager support will be more successful than change with
inadequate support.

So, in conclusion, the IESG seeks comments on whether there is
community interest in turning the first part of this experiment into a
BCP.  The IESG also seeks comments from interested document editors
and working group chairs pointing to instances where the second part
of the experiment would be useful.  In particular, please let the IESG
know about upcoming work where being able to reference approved
Internet Drafts from RFCs would be useful; please explain how it would
be useful.  Unless the IESG finds significant cases where the second
part of this experiment will be useful, the IESG plans to decline to
run that part of the experiment.

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IESG response and questions to the normative reference experiment (draft-klensin-norm-ref-01.txt)

2006-09-01 Thread Brian Carpenter
[Discussion invited on [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The IESG received a request under RFC 3933 to run
draft-klensin-norm-ref-01.txt as an experiment in loosening the IETF's
requirements for normative references in RFCs.

The experiment is composed of two parts.  The first part allows
approved Internet Drafts to reference RFCs at a lower level of
maturity, provided that a note explaining the reference is added.  One
way of looking at this is that it relaxes the requirements for
normative downreferences in RFC 3967.  The IESG believes that there is
sufficient support for this part of the experiment that simply writing
a BCP is a better approach than running an experiment.

The second part of the experiment proposes that RFCs be allowed to
contain normative down references to approved Internet Drafts that
have not yet been published as RFCs.

According to RFC 3933, the IESG must make a determination of whether
an experiment is plausibly useful before it is approved.
   The IESG
   can institute whatever procedures it wishes to make this determination
   and to avoid denial of service attacks from large numbers of spurious
   or unimportant proposals.  In particular, they might institute a
   procedure requiring a number of endorsements, or endorsements of a
   particular type, before the IESG considers the proposal.  The IESG is,
   however, expected to understand that procedures or review processes
   that act as a mechanism for significant delays do not fall within the
   intent of this specification.

The IESG is new to RFC 3933 experiments and like the rest of the
community is still trying to figure out how to evaluate these
experiments.  In this instance, the IESG issued a last call and the
discussion focused around the question of whether it would be a good
idea if the IETF tried this experiment.  The consensus was by no means
clear-cut.  The IESG believes it is likely that after more
definition, we could eventually get to an experiment for which there
is community consensus.

However the question of plausibly useful includes aspects that were
not adequately considered during the last call.  In particular, while
discussing how to move forward, the IESG realized it had never
actually considered who would use the second part of the experiment.
When queried, no area director indicated a specific desire to use the
experiment to reference an approved Internet Draft from an RFC.

The IESG believes the second part of this experiment is unlikely to be
useful unless there are IESG members that find it sufficiently
compelling to invest time in trying to use the experiment.

In the future, it may be desirable to ask for specific intentions of IESG
members for experiments that would only be successful with the active
participation of some IESG members.  The question is: are there IESG
members who have a specific need for the proposed experiment and are
going to use this proposal in real life?  This should not be used to block
efforts for change with very strong community support.  However it is
appropriate to use such endorsements to focus our efforts especially
when consensus is mixed or when there are a lot of efforts on the
table.  The IESG realizes that it needs to be responsive to the
community.  The IESG also trusts that we all realize that change where
there is active, eager support will be more successful than change with
inadequate support.

So, in conclusion, the IESG seeks comments on whether there is
community interest in turning the first part of this experiment into a
BCP.  The IESG also seeks comments from interested document editors
and working group chairs pointing to instances where the second part
of the experiment would be useful.  In particular, please let the IESG
know about upcoming work where being able to reference approved
Internet Drafts from RFCs would be useful; please explain how it would
be useful.  Unless the IESG finds significant cases where the second
part of this experiment will be useful, the IESG plans to decline to
run that part of the experiment.

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First RFC 4633 procedure for six month suspensions

2006-09-01 Thread Brian Carpenter
This procedure is an RFC 4633 procedure for mailing list suspensions
under the RFC 4633 experiment.  This procedure applies to all IETF
mailing lists that are covered by RFC 4633. The IESG approved this
procedure on 2006-08-31.

When area directors are involved in a situation where an IETF mailing
list is undergoing disruption, they first work with interested parties
to try and find a constructive solution to the underlying problem that
leads to the disruption. This often involves talking to the disruptive
parties to make sure their concerns are understood as well as to
inform them of expected rules of conduct.  When such constructive
solutions fail to work and when a 30-day suspension has been tried and
failed, the IESG may approve a posting-rights suspension of up to six
months for a named set of individuals from the affected mailing lists.
The IESG may delegate the authority to re-suspend some or all of the
named individuals to the mailing list manager or area director should
these delegates determine that disruption has resumed after the
suspension expires.  In no event shall a suspension last for more than
six months nor shall any suspension last beyond the end of the RFC
4633 experiment.

Whenever a suspension or re-suspension is made under this procedure, a
notice must be sent to the affected mailing lists announcing who has
been suspended.

Any IESG member may ask to have a delegate's decision to re-suspend an
individual reviewed by the whole IESG.  This review should be much
less formal than an appeal; it should be treated as the same sort of
review that the IESG would perform if it had received a request to
re-suspend an individual in a case where this authority was not
re-delegated.  The suspension remains in force during such a review.

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Reminder: Earlier dates for BOF proposals

2006-08-28 Thread Brian Carpenter
Here is a reminder of the BOF scheduling deadlines for San Diego.
There might be some confusion since I just noticed a link to an
obsolete version on the IETF site.

---

If you are expecting to propose a BOF in San Diego, please
note the new scheduling deadlines:

August 7, Monday - WG and BOF scheduling begins

September 18, Monday - Cutoff date for requests to schedule WG
   and for preliminary BOF proposals to ADs

September 25, Monday - Cutoff date for requests to schedule BOF

In other words you MUST send a preliminary proposal to the
relevant AD by September 18; but earlier would be better.
The final scheduling request must be sent by September 25.

This change is designed to ensure that all BOF proposals can
be discussed between the IESG and IAB before a final decision
is taken.

The general BOF procedures are at 
http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1bof-procedures.txt
and there is excellent general advice at
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-narten-successful-bof

   Brian Carpenter

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Volume 2 Issue 1 of the IETF Journal

2006-06-13 Thread Brian Carpenter
Volume 2 Issue 1 of the IETF Journal is now available via:

http://ietfjournal.isoc.org/

(sent on behalf of the Editor, Mirjam Kuehne)

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Notes from IESG Retreat held in May

2006-06-12 Thread Brian Carpenter
The notes from the recent IESG Retreat, held May 5/6, 2006, can be found at the
following URL:

http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/Spring06retreatNotes.txt

   Brian Carpenter
   IESG Chair

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Call for additional IESG narrative scribe volunteers

2006-05-10 Thread Brian Carpenter
The IESG narrative minutes are posted, whenever available, at
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/iesg-narrative.html.
Currently, two scribes (Spencer Dawkins and Marshall Eubanks) share
the work. The IESG would like to recruit a third scribe to spread
the load.

Volunteers should write to iesg@ietf.org by May 17.
We'll keep names confidential, unless of course people choose
to volunteer in public.

The general guidelines are:

- at least one scribe attends the regular IESG telechats
(11:30 - 14:00 US ET on alternate Thursdays).

- the scribe(s) record narrative minutes of the discussions, and
do not take part in the discussions except to ask for clarifications.

- the narrative minutes will be published after review by the IESG.
The intent is to do this two to four weeks after the meeting in question.

- confidential items (principally personnel discussions) will not be
reported in detail. The scribe will not take part in any sessions that
liaisons are excluded from (e.g. nominating discussions and appeal
discussions).

   Brian Carpenter for the IESG 

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Submission of BOF requests recommended by May 22

2006-05-09 Thread Brian Carpenter
The formal cutoff date for BOF requests for IETF 66 is June 5.
However, the IESG *strongly* urges that all BOF requests,
with supporting material, should be sent to the relevant
Area Director at least two weeks before that date, i.e.
by May 22, in order to allow time for full consideration by
the IESG and IAB.

Please see draft-narten-successful-bof-01.txt for
suggestions on how to plan a successful BOF, and also
http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1bof-procedures.txt.

Brian Carpenter, for the IESG

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Summary of IESG Efficiency retreat

2006-02-28 Thread Brian Carpenter
This can now be found at:

http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/Jan06retreat.txt

In particular, the IESG settled on some new target times
for document processing by the IESG and by authors.

   Brian Carpenter

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Volume 1 Issue 2 of the IETF Journal

2006-01-17 Thread Brian Carpenter
Volume 1 Issue 2 of the IETF Journal is now available at:

http://ietfjournal.isoc.org/

(sent on behalf of the Editor, Peter Godwin)

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Final Update - IETF Trust Consensus Call

2005-12-05 Thread Brian Carpenter
(posted for Lucy Lynch, IAOC Chair)

All -

The amended language for Section 9.5 (Licensing) of the IETF Trust was
posted to the IETF lists on December 1st and the IETF Trust FAQ has
been updated to reflect the new text (see below). We have also added
additional details on the handling of historical data. As we develop
procedures for the transfer of assets into the IETF Trust and an
inventory of items held by the IETF Trust we will publish them to the
IAOC web site (see: http://koi.uoregon.edu/~iaoc/)

Several people asked for additional time to review our final language,
and with that in mind, I would like to extend this Call one last
time to December 8th, 2005.

Please send comments to: ietf@ietf.org or iaoc.ietf.org

- Thanks

Lucy E. Lynch   Academic User Services
Computing CenterUniversity of Oregon
llynch  @darkwing.uoregon.edu   (541) 346-1774

FAQ Updates:
-
18. How will the license provisions in Section 9.5 affect the contents
of Standards related documents like RFCs and Internet Drafts.

The IETF IPR rules in force when such documents were published still
apply and Section 9.5 has been updated to reflect community concerns
about the effect of licensing terms. The new text reads:

9.5 Licenses.

The Trust (acting through the Trustees) shall have the right to grant
licenses for the use of the Trust Assets on such terms, subject to
Section 7.1, as the Trustees deem appropriate; provided, however, that
the Trust shall not grant any license that would be deemed a transfer
of ownership or abandonment of any Trust Assets under applicable law.
Specifically, any license granted by the Trust for the use of the
Trust Assets consisting of IPR other than rights in IETF
standards-related documents (such as RFCs, Internet Drafts and the
like) that have been acquired by the Trust through non-exclusive
licenses granted by their contributors pursuant to the IETF
community-approved procedures currently set forth in RFC 3978, and any
community-approved updates and revisions thereto, shall include
provisions stating that (a) the licensee agrees to grant and assign to
the Trust all right, title, and interest it may have or claim in any
derivative works of licensee that are based on or incorporate the IPR,
and (b) the licensee's use of the IPR and any goodwill associated
therewith shall inure to the benefit of the Trust.

19. Which of the assets listed in Schedule A will be transferred when
the IETF Trust is established? Will the Trustees publish an accounting
of these assets?

All of the Marks, Domain Names, and Current Data listed in Schedule A
will be transferred at closing. In addition, Historical Data that is
currently available from available from the servers currently operated
by or for the IETF Secretariat (i.e. data available on spinning disk)
will also be transferred at closing. The Trustees will inventory all
assets and provide a full accounting to the IETF community. Historical
data which is currently in-accessible will be subject to the
conditions outlined in sub-sections b-g. When and if additional data
becomes available, those assets will transfer to the IETF Trust and
will be added to the inventory.

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IETF budget detail

2005-11-07 Thread Brian Carpenter
(posted on behalf of Ray Pelletier)

A brief overview of the IETF FY06 budget will be presented at the Wednesday
Plenary.

Those interested in more detail, rationale, history and assumptions may find
them at the following IAOC link:
http://koi.uoregon.edu/~iaoc/

Ray Pelletier
IETF Administrative Director 

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Reminder: Tickets for IETF-64 Social are still on sale

2005-11-02 Thread Brian Carpenter
(posted on behalf of Ed Juskevicius)

FYI, tickets for the IETF Social on Tuesday evening, November 8th, are
still available for purchase on-line at:
https://www.meetinghq.com/group/101004751?wslid=nortel_ietf2005social
 
A short FAQ related to this Social is contained in:
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg38485.html

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First set of IESG narrative minutes

2005-11-01 Thread Brian Carpenter
The first set of IESG narrative minutes are now
available. The link is just below the link for
the official minutes, on http://www.ietf.org/iesg.html

These minutes are intended to give more detail about 
discussions during IESG teleconferences but they do 
not replace the official minutes as the record of 
decisions. They are informal and not a complete record 
of the discussions.

It's taken us a bit longer than we hoped to start
this experiment, but we hope the community will
find it useful.

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FYI: Announcing the IETF Journal - a new ISOC publication

2005-10-08 Thread Brian Carpenter
(As announced to the ISOC membership)

Announcing the IETF Journal - a new ISOC publication

ISOC is pleased to announce the IETF Journal, a new Internet Society
publication produced in cooperation with the Internet Engineering Task
Force. Our aim is to provide an easily understandable overview of
what's happening in the world of Internet standards with a particular
focus on the activities of the IETF Working Groups (WG). Each issue of
the IETF Journal will highlight some of the hot issues being
discussed in IETF meetings and in the IETF mailing lists. Our first
issue takes a look back at the recent 63rd meeting of the IETF in
Paris and is available here:http://ietfjournal.isoc.org/

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Creation of the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure (RAI) Area

2005-10-06 Thread Brian Carpenter
Creation of the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure (RAI) Area

The IESG is grateful for the useful comments received on
the proposal to create an RAI Area (see
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg01566.html
for the original proposal).

After integrating those comments and carefully considering the
arguments both in favour and against, the IESG has decided to
create the new area starting in March 2006 and has duly informed
the NomCom Chair. The revised area description is attached below.

One concern expressed was about the impact of increasing
the number of Area Directors on the IESG's efficiency. The IESG takes
this concern seriously and we intend soon to discuss operational and
organisational changes to deal with it.

   Brian Carpenter for the IESG

---
Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area:

The Real-Time Applications and Infrastructure Area develops protocols
and architectures for delay-sensitive interpersonal communications
Work in this area serves an industry whose  applications and services include
voice and video over IP, instant messaging  and presence.  These applications
and services are real-time in the sense set out first in RFC 1889.

The RAI Area is seeded with existing working groups from the Transport
and Applications Areas: AVT, ECRIT, ENUM, GEOPRIV, IEPREP, IPTEL,
MEGACO, MMUSIC, SIGTRAN, SIMPLE, SIP, SIPPING, SPEECHSC, and XCON.
A good rule of thumb for the incorporation of new work into RAI, as opposed to
Transport or Applications, is that the work in question is needed to support
real-time interpersonal communication.  The infrastructure applications needed
to support such communications are explicitly in scope, as are discussions of
operational concerns specific to this area.  For example, work might relate to
presence services, to session signaling protocols and emergency call routing
solutions, or to work on the layer five issues for Internet telephony.

Like all areas of the IETF, the RAI Area draws on the work of numerous
other areas, and as such there can be no neat mathematical boundaries
delineating RAI's work from the rest of the IETF. The new area will
allow an existing community within the IETF to solidify its vision and
to benefit from increased institutional support.

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Update on the IPR Trust

2005-09-28 Thread Brian Carpenter
(sent for Lucy Lynch, IAOC Chair, for those who didn't see
it on the IETF discussion list)

All -

As I outlined in my presentation at IETF 63*, the IAOC is pursuing the
notion of a dedicated IPR Trust. We have been through several revisions of
the Trust document and have developed a formula that we believe will work
for all parties. Below you'll find a summary of the current framework for
such a trust. The IAOC believes that the formation of such a Trust is in
the best interests of the IETF as a whole and we hope to close on a final
document in the near future. Please send comments or questions to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

*(http://koi.uoregon.edu/~iaoc/116.html)

IETF IPR Trust Summary: __

The IETF Trust will be created by ISOC, CNRI and the IETF. Its purposes
include acquiring, holding, maintaining and licensing certain existing and
future intellectual property used in connection with the Internet
standards process. The Beneficiary of the Trust shall be the IETF as a
whole.

ISOC and CNRI, as settlors, will transfer to the Trust all of their right,
title and interest, if any, in and to their respective IPR relevant to the
IETF [specified below]. The Trustees will encourage others who may hold
rights and interests in intellectual property, domain names or other
property relevant to the IETF to similarly transfer all of their
respective rights, title and interest therein to the Trust.

The Trustees will be the members of the IAOC.

The Trust shall be for an indefinite term (limited to the maximum period
permitted by law). Prior to July 1, 2010, the Trust Agreement may be
amended only by unanimous written consent of ISOC and CNRI and two-thirds
of the Trustees. After July 1, 2010, the Trustees, acting by at least a
two-thirds majority vote, may elect to amend or terminate the Trust.

The Trust (acting through the Trustees) shall have the right to grant
licenses for the use of the Trust Assets on such terms, as the Trustees
deem appropriate; provided, however, that the Trust shall not grant any
license that would be deemed a transfer of ownership or abandonment of any
Trust Assets under applicable law.

Initial contributed IPR shall be (as far as the parties' rights extend):

-   Trademarks
-   Domain names
-   Current databases, mailing lists, web pages, working group
and IESG materials
-   Current I-Ds and RFCs
-   Rights in extracted historical data (records of past meetings,
 past I-Ds and RFCs and their processing history)
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Monthly Report for the IAOC for August, 2005

2005-09-27 Thread Brian Carpenter
(Sent on behalf of Lucy Lynch, IAOC Chair)

Monthly Report for the IAOC for August, 2005.

The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) was formed 

to provide appropriate direction to the IAD [IETF Administrative Director],
 
to review the IAD's regular reports, and to oversee IASA functions to ensure
 
that the administrative needs of the IETF community are being properly met.

The IAOC is charged by BCP 101 with providing regular reports to the IETF
community; this monthly report is intended to serve as part of this reporting
requirement.

The current membership is (in alphabetical order):

   Brian Carpenter, IETF Chair, ex officio.
   Steve Crocker, appointed by the ISOC Board of Trustees for two years.
   Leslie Daigle, IAB Chair, ex officio.
   Ed Juskevicius, 1 Year NomCom Selection.
   Kurtis Lindqvist, appointed by the IESG for one year.
   Lucy Lynch, appointed by the IAB for two years.
   Lynn St Amour, ISOC President/CEO, ex officio.
   Jonne Soininen, 2 Year NomCom Selection.

In addition, Marshall Eubanks serves as the Secretary and scribe.

The IAOC conducts regular (presently weekly) teleconferences, for which minutes
are currently available at http://koi.uoregon.edu/~iaoc/. 

The work conducted by the IAOC during the month of August centered on the
following areas : IETF meetings, establishment of a Trust for IETF Intellectual
Property Rights (IPR), establishment of a contract for Secretariat Services, and
various housekeeping details.

IETF-63 in Paris, France :

The IAOC had Office Hours during the Paris IETF from 3:45 to 4:45 (local time),
Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday, and presented during the Wednesday plenary. The
slides from the presentation are available at

http://koi.uoregon.edu/~iaoc/docs/ietf-63-iaoc.pdf .

Preparations for upcoming IETF Meetings :

Registration for IETF-64 was opened on August 31st. The IAOC and Neustar intend
to use this meeting as a template to better understand financial flows and
expenses associated with an IETF meeting.

Possible locations for meetings after IETF-64 were discussed at length in
August, and the IAD, along with IETF volunteers and personnel from Foretec and
NeuStar, made a site visit to evaluate possible locations for IETF-65 during the
week of August 22nd.

The IAD and the IETF Chair worked together to develop a survey questionnaire
aimed at IETF 63 meeting attendees to evaluate the meeting itself and suggest
changes to future meetings.  The survey was released publicly on August 17th,
and responses closed on August 26th; a total of  373 responses were received.
Survey results are available at  

http://geneva.isoc.org/surveys/results/IETF63/ .

IETF Trust :

The IAOC met with Robert Kahn of CNRI and Patrice Lyons, CNRI Counsel, on
August 3rd to discuss the the proposed IETF Trust for IPR. Based on comments
from this and other meetings, and their internal review, the IOAC prepared a new
draft Trust agreement during August. After discussion, the IAOC concluded that
this draft would benefit from additional legal review and asked the IETF Counsel
to forward it and the associated License documents for review by other counsel
at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. 

In addition, during the August 3rd meeting it was agreed that some of the text
in BCP 101 is based on assumptions that the IASA has moved beyond. The final
version of BCP 101, i.e., RFC 4071, assumed that the vehicle for certain
IETF-related Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) would be the Internet Society
(ISOC). Since the publication of RFC 4071, the IAOC has been working define and
create the IETF Trust to hold such IPR.  Since this Trust is not described in
BCP 101, the IAOC decided that a new BCP, to include the IETF Trust in the
definition of the IASA structure, would be of value, and Brian Carpenter
prepared a draft, draft-carpenter-bcp101-update-00.txt, with the IAOC's
assistance, to address this. This draft was submitted on August 17th.

Contract for Secretariat Services :

At present, there is no outstanding contract for the services provided by the
IETF Secretariat. The IAOC is empowered by the BCP 101 to execute such a
contract and is pursuing this matter vigorously. The IETF Secretariat is hosted
by Foretec Seminars Inc., a subsidiary of the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI). Foretec is currently in the process of being sold to
NeuStar, Inc. Assuming that this sale is completed, the IAOC intends to contract
with NeuStar, if mutually acceptable terms can be reached, to provide these
services for a term not to exceed 2 years, with subsequent terms being
contracted under a formal Request for Proposals. 

On August 1st, in Paris, the IAOC met with Mark Foster, Jeff Neuman and Alan
Khalili from Neustar to discuss issues related to the shift of Secretariat
services, include the draft Statement of Work, IPR License, and the IEFT Trust.
The IAOC agreed that the IAD and the IETF Counsel, Jorge Contreras, should
prepare a draft IPR License

IETF Process Evolution: PESCI team members

2005-09-26 Thread Brian Carpenter
I've picked the following PESCI team members from the 
various volunteers and nominees:

Harald Alvestrand 
Scott Brim 
Elwyn Davies 
Adrian Farrel 
Michael Richardson 

Thanks to everybody who was willing to serve at short notice.

As a reminder, PESCI's immediate tasks are:

  - review recent discussions on IETF process changes
  - identify a concise set of goals and principles for process change
  - publish these for comment and seek IETF debate and rough consensus

and the cutoff date for our first draft is October 17.

As noted previously, the open mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(see https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pesci-discuss)

You can write privately to the team at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

If you've lost track of the background to PESCI, see
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg01567.html

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Results of IETF 63 on-line survey

2005-08-30 Thread Brian Carpenter
The results are at http://geneva.isoc.org/surveys/results/IETF63/

One question proved to be ambiguous, so we are
not sure how to interpret its result:
  Would you prefer longer meetings or shorter meetings?
was intended to refer to the total length of the IETF meeting, 
currently Monday 9:00 a.m. through Friday 11:30 a.m.

Brian Carpenter, IETF Chair
Ray Pelletier, IETF Administrative Director

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IETF 63 On-line Survey: Deadline Friday

2005-08-23 Thread Brian Carpenter
Note that Javascript is needed for all questions to be visible.

Note that the question
  Would you prefer longer meetings or shorter meetings?
refers to the total length of the IETF meeting, currently
Monday 9:00 a.m. through Friday 11:30 a.m.



To assist the planning of future meetings, we ask you kindly to spend a
minute or two responding to the on-line survey at
http://geneva.isoc.org/surveys/index.php?sid=4
Even if you did not attend IETF 63 in Paris, we would value your responses.
All responses will be treated anonymously, and a summary will be available
on-line.

Please respond by August 26 at the latest.

Thanks

Brian Carpenter, IETF Chair
Ray Pelletier, IETF Administrative Director 

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Monthly Report for the IAOC for June, 2005

2005-07-13 Thread Brian Carpenter
Monthly Report for the IAOC for June, 2005.

(posted for Lucy Lynch, IAOC Chair)

The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) was formed 

to provide appropriate direction to the IAD [IETF Administrative Director],
 
to review the IAD's regular reports, and to oversee IASA functions to ensure
 
that the administrative needs of the IETF community are being properly met.

The IAOC is charged by BCP 101 with providing regular reports to the IETF
community; this monthly report is intended to serve as part of this reporting
requirement.

The current membership is (in alphabetical order):

   Brian Carpenter, IETF Chair, ex officio.
   Steve Crocker, appointed by the ISOC Board of Trustees for two years.
   Leslie Daigle, IAB Chair, ex officio.
   Ed Juskevicius, 1 Year NomCom Selection.
   Kurtis Lindqvist, appointed by the IESG for one year.
   Lucy Lynch, appointed by the IAB for two years.
   Lynn St Amour, ISOC President/CEO, ex officio.
   Jonne Soininen, 2 Year NomCom Selection.

In addition, Marshall Eubanks serves as the Secretary and scribe.

The IAOC conducts regular (presently weekly) teleconferences, for which minutes
are currently available at http://koi.uoregon.edu/~iaoc/. This month included a
Face to Face meeting of the entire IAOC, except for the IETF Chair, on June 8th
in Reston, Virginia.

The work conducted by the IAOC during the month of June centered on the
following areas : welcoming and beginning to work with the new IAD,
establishment of a Trust for IETF Intellectual Property Rights (IPR),
establishment of a contract for Secretariat Services, and various housekeeping
details.

In addition, in June the NomCom announced its selections for two new members
for the IAOC, which fills the IAOC as set out in BCP 101.

The New IAD :

In June, the IAOC began work with the new IAD, Ray Pelletier (whose hiring was
effective May 31st). With the assent of the IAOC, the IAD has now assumed
responsibility for routine interactions with NeuStar, and has had meetings with
the IAOC, the IETF Chair, the RFC Editor and others to gain a better
understanding of his new responsibilities.

IPR Trust :

On June 2nd, the IAOC Chair sent the IAOC's suggested revisions to the proposed
Trust document to CNRI. While a formal response has not yet been received from
CNRI, this topic was discussed during phone conversations with Robert Kahn of
CNRI by the IETF and IAOC Chairs (June 3rd) and by the IAD (June 28th).

Contract for Secretariat Services :

At present, there is no outstanding contract for the services provided by the
IETF Secretariat. The IAOC is empowered by the BCP 101 to execute such a
contract and is pursuing this matter vigorously. The IETF Secretariat is hosted
by Foretec Seminars Inc., a subsidiary of the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI). Foretec is currently in the process of being sold to
NeuStar, Inc. Assuming that this sale is completed, the IAOC intends to contract
with NeuStar, if mutually acceptable terms can be reached, to provide these
services for a term not to exceed 2 years, with subsequent terms being
contracted under a formal Request for Proposals. 

On June 1st, the IAOC received a revised Services Agreement from NeuStar. This
was discussed at length with Mark Foster (CTO, NeuStar) and Jeff Neuman (Counsel
to NeuStar) as part of the face to Face meeting on June 8th. After discussion, a
new revision of this proposed Service Agreement was sent to NeuStar on June 23rd
by the IAD.

The IAD has initiated regular weekly phone calls with NeuStar personnel to
facilitate the progress of the proposed draft contract.

New Members :

The IAOC welcomed two new members during June, Jonne Soininen and Ed
Juskevicius, after selection by the IETF NomCom and confirmation by the IESG.
These new members complete the IAOC membership authorized by BCP 101. The IAOC
intends to revisit its decision procedures and the selection of the IAOC Chair
once the new members have had the time to become familiar with the existing
structure.

Housekeeping :

The IAOC and the IETF Secretariat have placed a link to the IAOC web page as
part of the Related Web Pages line of the IETF main web page.

The IAOC plans to have Office Hours during the Paris IETF and has requested a
room for this from the IETF Secretariat.

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Proposed update of Tools Team charter

2005-07-12 Thread Brian Carpenter
The Tools Team was set up by Harald Alvestrand and has made
good progress (e.g. draft-ietf-tools-draft-submission-09,
which has been approved as an Informational RFC).

Now it's time to update the team's charter. Please see
the proposed new charter:
 
http://tools.ietf.org/charters/charter-2005-06-17.html

The current charter is at http://tools.ietf.org/charter-page

Main changes:

References to IASA and IAD added in accordance with BCP 101's
assignment of responsibilities.

Clarifies that the Tools Team works at most on unsupported
prototypes and that IASA is responsible for production tools.

Milestones updated.

If you have comments on the new charter, please write to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (or to ietf@ietf.org if you really
have a point for the whole IETF).

   Brian Carpenter
   General AD

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ISOC Board of Trustees position

2005-07-03 Thread Brian Carpenter
The Internet Society has announced the result of its annual election
process for its Board of Trustees. The full announcement is at
http://www.isoc.org/members/vote/2005election/

For the position selected under RFC 3677 (BCP 77) IETF ISOC 
Board of Trustee Appointment Procedures, the announcement states:

  As part of ISOC's election process, one member of the Board 
  is named by the IETF, through selection by the Internet 
  Architecture Board (IAB) and confirmation by the IESG. We are 
  pleased to be able to announce that Fred Baker will be 
  returning for a new three year term on the Internet Society 
  Board of Trustees.

Thanks are due both to Fred and to the unselected candidates
for their willingness to serve. Also see
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg01001.html

(posted by Brian Carpenter during Leslie Daigle's absence 
on vacation)

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Notes from IESG Retreat

2005-05-27 Thread Brian Carpenter
The notes from the IESG Retreat held last month can be found at
http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/nyon-notes.txt

   Brian Carpenter

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Monthly Report for the IAOC for April, 2005

2005-05-13 Thread Brian Carpenter
(Posted on behalf of Lucy Lynch, IAOC Chair)

Monthly Report for the IAOC for April, 2005.

As part of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) described by BCP 101
(RFC4071), the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) was formed

to provide appropriate direction to the IAD [IETF Administrative 
Director], to review the IAD's regular reports, and to oversee IASA
functions to ensure that the administrative needs of the IETF 
community are being properly met.

The IAOC is charged by BCP 101 with providing regular reports to the IETF
community; this monthly report is intended to serve as part of this reporting
requirement.

Following the processes outlined in draft-iab-iaoc-selection-01.txt, the IAB,
IESG and ISOC selected members for the IAOC in March and early April, 2005. BCP
101 states that

The IAOC will become active as soon as a majority (three or more) of the
appointed members have been selected.

Leslie Daigle and Brian Carpenter, in an email to the IETF Announcement list on
April 4, 2005, announced the instantiation of the IAOC :

With these appointments and ISOC's concurrent announcement
of their selection, the initial IAOC is now live,
and the IASA structure is instantiated.  The initial
IAOC, which also includes the IETF Chair, the IAB Chair,
and the ISOC President as ex officio members, will be seated
at the first regular business meeting, scheduled for
Thursday, April 7.

The current membership is (in alphabetical order):

   Brian Carpenter, IETF Chair, ex officio.
   Steve Crocker, appointed by the ISOC Board of Trustees for two years.
   Leslie Daigle, IAB Chair, ex officio.
   Kurtis Lindqvist, appointed by the IESG for one year.
   Lucy Lynch, appointed by the IAB for two years.
   Lynn St Amour, ISOC President/CEO, ex officio.

Two additional members are to be provided by the NomCom; this selection process
is now underway.

The IAOC conducts regular (presently weekly) teleconferences, for which minutes
are currently available at
http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/adminrest/transteam/notes/. The first such
teleconference, on April 7, 2005, led to the election of Lucy Lynch as the IAOC
Chair and the appointment of Marshall Eubanks as the IAOC Secretary. According
to BCP 101

   The IAOC decides the details about its decision-making rules,
   including its rules for quorum, conflict of interest, and breaking of
   ties.

and in its first meetings the IAOC decided that all members (including ex
officio members) would have one vote and that the IAOC would operate on
consensus to the extent possible.

The work conducted by the IAOC during the month of April centered on the
following areas : IAD hiring,  establishment of a contract for Secretariat
Services, establishment of a Trust for IETF Intellectual Property Rights (IPR),
and resolving logistical and housekeeping details associated with the start of a
new oversight body.

IAD Hiring :

The IAOC is charged with selection of the IAD, who will conduct and oversee
most of the day-to-day operational tasks of the IASA. The IASA Transition Team
issued a call for applications for this position and conducted the initial
interviews of the applicants. The IAOC has continued evaluating these applicants
and expects to make a selection in May.

Contract for Secretariat Services :

At present, there is no outstanding contract for the services provided by the
IETF Secretariat. The IAOC is empowered by the BCP 101 to execute such a
contract and is pursuing this matter vigorously. The IETF Secretariat is hosted
by Foretec Seminars Inc., a subsidiary of the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives (CNRI). Foretec is currently in the process of being sold to
NeuStar, Inc. Assuming that this sale is completed, the IAOC intends to contract
with NeuStar, if mutually acceptable terms can be reached, to provide these
services for a term not to exceed 2 years, with subsequent terms being
contracted under a formal Request for Proposals. NeuStar has informed the
IAOC that it is working on a draft contract and will circulate it to the IAOC
for comments soon. NeuStar and the IAOC intend to use the upcoming IETF-63 in
Paris as a case study to better understand the revenues, expenses, and service
requirements of IETF meetings.

IPR Trust :

The IAOC received from CNRI a proposed Trust Agreement for the handling of
Intellectual Property belonging to the IETF and is discussing it with CNRI.


Housekeeping :

Directors Insurance for IAOC members is now in place, there is an email to
reach the IAOC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and it was decided to maintain public IAOC
information on the IASA Transition Team Wiki for the present, and to make
changes there to reflect the advent of the IAOC.

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