Explosive bolts [Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring]

2004-09-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Here's a version of what the explosive bolts could look like. Firstly, note that the IETF (*not* the ISOC) signed an MOU with ICANN on March 1st 2000. Fred Baker signed it as IETF Chair, I signed it as IAB Chair, and Mike Roberts signed it as ICANN President. The IETF lawyer and the ICANN lawyer

Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 sep 2004, at 07.31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I think that we shouldn't broaden the discussion at this time ( as Avri suggested ), on the grounds of keeping things simple. I understand the desire to keep thing simple and that Carl is attempting a simple fix to a

Sergeants-at-arms for the IETF list

2004-09-07 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Greetings, on August 16, I sent out a call for volunteers for sergeants-at-arms for the IETF mailing list. I got a number of qualified volunteers (thank you all!), and from the volunteers I have picked two: - Theodore Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Jordi Palet Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The fact

Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread avri
On 7 sep 2004, at 02.13, Brian E Carpenter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very puzzled. I though those two extremes were exactly described by scenarios A and D. Perhaps I misread, but while I saw that A and D are the extremes of the scenarios represented to date, I was suggesting is that

Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread Margaret Wasserman
I believe that the difference between what Avri is discussing and what is discussed in Carl's draft is that Avri is talking about incorporating the IETF (the standards function), either as part of ISOC or as an independent entity, not just the administrative support function. Carl's draft

Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. First I'd like to start off by saying that I think Carl's document is a very good start for discussing these options. I support the recommendations made in section 3. I believe they are well justified and would be a great step in the right direction. Section 3 talks about clarifying the

RE: Explosive bolts [Re: Options for IETF administrativerestructuring]

2004-09-07 Thread graham . travers
Scott et al., Pete makes a good point. In his scenario, not only the Administrative Czar would need explosive bolts, but also the RFC Editor and Secretariat, etc. That presumably would mean restructuring the existing RFC Editor relationship ( which works well ), as well as the Secretariat

Reviewing: draft-malamud-consultant-report-00.txt

2004-09-07 Thread Graham Klyne
With reference to: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-malamud-consultant-report-00.txt I found this to be an interesting read, conveying many points of which I was not previously aware. At this stage, I feel able merely to comment on some aspects of the document, not having

Explosive bolts [Re: Options for IETF administrativerestructuring]

2004-09-07 Thread scott bradner
In his scenario, not only the Administrative Czar would need explosive bolts, but also the RFC Editor and Secretariat, etc. that depends on the contracts with those suppliers - if the contract is signed by the IETF chair or the admin czar for the IETF (rather than for the ISOC) I would not

RE: Reviewing: draft-malamud-consultant-report-00.txt

2004-09-07 Thread Thomas Gal
Exopounding on your last thought. I think it is very important that we come up with a central portal for this network of organizations that can provide a roadmap and point lay persons in the right direction. Even a unified search engine which comvers all of the sites would be useful. I think the

request for ICAR reviewers

2004-09-07 Thread Mark Allman
[Sorry if you see this announcement more than once.] Folks- The ICAR WG is soliciting reviewers for an early, cross-area review experiment within the IETF. The goal of this effort is to get solid review from a number of angles (security, internationalization, transport, MIB know-how, etc.)

Re: Explosive bolts [Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring]

2004-09-07 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian E Carpenter) writes: ... Firstly, note that the IETF (*not* the ISOC) signed an MOU with ICANN on March 1st 2000. Fred Baker signed it as IETF Chair, I signed it as IAB Chair, and Mike Roberts signed it as ICANN President. The IETF lawyer and the ICANN lawyer were

Please help us revise of Tao of the IETF

2004-09-07 Thread Paul Hoffman / VPNC
Greetings. Susan Harris and I have begun another round of work on The Tao of the IETF, RFC 3160. The new version is at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-taobis-00.txt. We would like to get comments and suggestions on how to make this document as useful as possible for newcomers

Re: Explosive bolts [Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring]

2004-09-07 Thread Carl Malamud
like many things outside the core technical field, these things are hard, and harder than they look, and hard enough that you need a better lawyer. as long as IETF remains an unincorporated association, i think you need every new IESG and IAB member to add their signature to all current MoU's

Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread Aaron Falk
On Sep 5, 2004, at 4:15 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: I do not think that recommendation 7 in scenario B is a good idea. I believe that plenary time is full enough without crowding it more. What about a 'business meeting' that is scheduled in wg slot or even on Sunday? I understand that there may be

Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread Sam Hartman
Aaron == Aaron Falk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aaron On Sep 5, 2004, at 4:15 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: I do not think that recommendation 7 in scenario B is a good idea. I believe that plenary time is full enough without crowding it more. Aaron What about a 'business

RE: Please help us revise of Tao of the IETF

2004-09-07 Thread Thomas Gal
I think a doc like this should certainly be prominently featured somewhere, maybe even under the title, on our webpage. Whatever way anyone could come up with to get someone to read background on the org before blindly searching for an RFC or posting to a list would probably help A LOT of people.

Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread Leslie Daigle
I'd like to provide one point of important clarification: the ISOC trustees appointed by the IETF do *not* represent the IETF. So, while I agree firmly that the IETF's relationship to ISOC is closer than the IETF's relationship to any other organization, I disagree strongly that the IETF has a

Re: On the difference between scenarios A and B in Carl's report

2004-09-07 Thread Geoff Huston
At 7:57 PM +0200 9/6/04, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: It seems to me that we are rapidly converging on one point of total IETF consensus: Putting the IETF administrative function under ISOC requires a documented IETF-ISOC agreement (call it an MoU, a contract or something else - it IS a

RE: Please help us revise of Tao of the IETF

2004-09-07 Thread Thomas Gal
YeahI blew it.trying to do two things at once. I meant it in the context of my comment earlier today: Exopounding on your last thought. I think it is very important that we come up with a central portal for this network of organizations that can provide a roadmap and point lay persons in

RE: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread Steve Crocker
Leslie, Thanks. Your basic point is well taken, but I think there are two important additional layers. As you said, the IETF's appointees to the ISOC board function first and foremost as ISOC board members, not as IETF's representatives. This is the same for all the board members. The IETF

Re: On the difference between scenarios A and B in Carl's

2004-09-07 Thread Paul Vixie
Putting the IETF administrative function under ISOC requires a documented IETF-ISOC agreement (call it an MoU, a contract or something else - it IS a document, it IS an agreement and it DOES have two parties). Its easy to identify the first party to this MoU - its ISOC, but, in a

Re: On the difference between scenarios A and B in Carl's report

2004-09-07 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Putting an MoU-like agreement on the table could shift the center of gravity of the responsibility for the future of the administrative activity further from the centre of the ISOC organization. The further out it gets, the less sense it makes to undertake (anything like) the other mechanisms in

Re: On the difference between scenarios A and B in Carl's report

2004-09-07 Thread scott bradner
leslie sez: In my reading of Scenarios A B, the suggestion is that ISOC takes on the administrative work more-or-less directly. takes on the admin work or contracts vendors to do the admin work i.e., the difference between hiring people and paying vendors it might make a difference if bolt

Functional differentiation and administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread Ted Hardie
As many will remember from the IETF 58 plenary presentation, I'm a big fan of functional differentiation. Though I try not to be dogmatic in its application, I believe there are a lot of cases where the creation of well-focused groups with limited goals is more successful than the creation of

RE: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread Fred Baker
I'll add one point. Many of the ISOC's organizational members (http://www.isoc.org/orgs/, http://www.isoc.org/orgs/orgsbytype.shtml) are companies that employ IETF participants or are otherwise related to the standards process. The IETF is near and dear to their hearts as well, often very

Re: Functional differentiation and administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread John C Klensin
Ted, Let me try to briefly start from your assumptions and explain why one might reach the opposite conclusion. Before I go on, I'm assuming that your conclusion really implies organization separate from ISOC rather than separate organization within some ISOC framework. There are scenarios for

Protocol Action: 'IANA Registration for ENUMservices web and ft' to Proposed Standard

2004-09-07 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'IANA Registration for ENUMservices web and ft ' draft-ietf-enum-webft-01.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Telephone Number Mapping Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Allison Mankin and Jon Peterson.

Protocol Action: 'Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses' to Proposed Standard

2004-09-07 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses ' draft-ietf-ops-rfc3291bis-06.txt as a Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. This document obsoletes RFC 3291. The

Protocol Action: 'T11 Network Address Authority (NAA) naming format for iSCSI Node Names' to Proposed Standard

2004-09-07 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'T11 Network Address Authority (NAA) naming format for iSCSI Node Names ' draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-name-ext-05.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the IP Storage Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Allison Mankin and