Re: Definitions, names, and confusion

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, januar 11, 2005 20:01:37 -0500 Bruce Lilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In recent discussion of a proposed replacement of a BCP RFC, a couple of problems have reappeared: 1. There seems to be a fairly wide misunderstanding of what BCP RFCs are supposed to cover. Part of the probl

Timeline for further work on IASA BCP

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
At the moment, there are 19 open tickets in the issue tracker. Some of these are overlapping. Of these, I think only issue #740 has been raised by people who speak for ISOC; I am not sure whether it means that ISOC is otherwise OK with the text or that ISOC has not sent comments yet. Lynn Duva

Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Section 3 of draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-03 says, in part: In principle, IETF administrative functions should be outsourced. The IAD is responsible for negotiating and maintaining such contracts, as well as providing any coordination necessary to make sure the IETF administrative support functions

Minor word tweak: #718 Transparency - Decisions and Reports

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
The following text was added to -03 as a result of this ticket: All IAOC decisions shall be minuted, and IAOC minutes shall be published regularly. Sam Hartman said: I was complaining about style, not grammar. I'd argue that the verb form of minute has low familiarity compared to the plural nou

Re: Timeline for further work on IASA BCP

2005-01-12 Thread John Loughney
Title: Converted from Rich Text Harald,  This sounds reasonable to me. How long do you are you planning to give us to review the updated draft? I've put off doing a thorough review of the draft (mostly just lurking on the discussions here) as it has been difficult to keep up with chang

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Jari Arkko
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: John Klensin suggested the following text for the first sentence, and Scott Bradner supported the idea: In principle, IETF administrative functions should be outsourced. Decisions to perform specific functions "in-house" should be explicitly justified by the IAOC an

Consensus? #721 5.1 Finances and Audit

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
On reviewing the discussion, I find two things worthy of note: - IASA financial reporting should include a balance sheet and a Profit/Loss statement - If IAOC is not happy with the transparency of ISOC's accounting/audit, it should be able to do something about it. Also from the discussion: - Th

Other change needed? #722 - 5.4 - ISOC off-account payment for expenses

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Bernard Aboba said, and it seems nobody commented: Section 5.4 " Other ISOC support shall be based on the budget process as specified in Section 6IASA Budget Process. ISOC shall credit the appropriate IASA accounts at least quarterly. If ISOC pays any other IETF expenses directly, without transferr

RE: Timeline for further work on IASA BCP

2005-01-12 Thread Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
Good plan! Bert > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Harald Tveit Alvestrand > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:07 > To: ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Timeline for further work on IASA BCP > > > At the moment, there are 19 open tickets in t

addressing WG/BCP/tags issue [was: The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess...]

2005-01-12 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Bruce, I changed the subject as the referred case only shown different network architecture confusions. Positively addressing this confusions will help more the solution of the case at hand than anything else. On 01:42 12/01/2005, Bruce Lilly said: The language-tag reviewer has also recentl

Re: Definitions, names, and confusion

2005-01-12 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 09:10 12/01/2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: actually the BCP label has multiple, largely disjunct areas of coverage. I once (many years back) suggested splitting the categories into Recommended Internet Practices and Directives for Oversight and Administration, but the acronyms didn't sur

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread John Loughney
Title: Converted from Rich Text This seems reasonable to me.  John L.  > John Klensin suggested the following text for the first sentence, and > Scott Bradner supported the idea:> > In principle, IETF administrative functions should be> outsourced. Decisions to perform specific functi

Re: Other change needed? #722 - 5.4 - ISOC off-account payment for expenses

2005-01-12 Thread John Loughney
Title: Converted from Rich Text I think your text is reasonable.  John L.  --- Original message --- Subject: Other change needed? #722 - 5.4 - ISOC off-account payment for expenses From: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Time: 01/12/

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Scott W Brim
On 1/12/2005 04:51, Harald Tveit Alvestrand allegedly wrote: In principle, IETF administrative functions should be outsourced. Decisions to perform specific functions "in-house" should be explicitly justified by the IAOC and restricted to the minimum staff required, with these decisions and staffin

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On onsdag, januar 12, 2005 07:29:27 -0500 Scott W Brim wrote: On 1/12/2005 04:51, Harald Tveit Alvestrand allegedly wrote: In principle, IETF administrative functions should be outsourced. Decisions to perform specific functions "in-house" should be explicitly justified by the IAOC and restri

Consensus? #737 Section 5.3 Designated donations

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
The section on donations in version -03 says (skipping the editors' notes): 5.3 Designated Donations, Monetary and In-Kind Donations are an essential component of funding. The IASA undertakes no direct fund-raising activities. This establishes a practice of separating IETF administrative a

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Scott W Brim
On 1/12/2005 07:44, Harald Tveit Alvestrand allegedly wrote: --On onsdag, januar 12, 2005 07:29:27 -0500 Scott W Brim wrote: On 1/12/2005 04:51, Harald Tveit Alvestrand allegedly wrote: In principle, IETF administrative functions should be outsourced. Decisions to perform specific functions "in

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Scott Bradner
harald asks > We have to adjust the second sentence (referring to "such contracts" would > become ambiguous), so the total paragraph becomes: In principle, IETF administrative functions should be outsourced. Decisions to perform specific functions "in-house" should be explicitly justifie

Re: Minor word tweak: #718 Transparency - Decisions and Reports

2005-01-12 Thread Scott Bradner
haralald's Suggested revision: All IAOC decisions shall be recorded in IAOC minutes, and IAOC minutes shall be published regularly. looks fine to me Scott ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I thought that was implied by "required".. if we don't like "required", I think we should drop the subsentence, leaving us with: In principle, IETF administrative functions should be outsourced. Decisions to perform specific functions "in-house" should be explicitly justified by the IAOC, wit

Re: Consensus? #721 5.1 Finances and Audit

2005-01-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: On reviewing the discussion, I find two things worthy of note: - IASA financial reporting should include a balance sheet and a Profit/Loss statement - If IAOC is not happy with the transparency of ISOC's accounting/audit, it should be able to do something about it.

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Me too Brian John Loughney wrote: This seems reasonable to me. John L. John Klensin suggested the following text for the first sentence, and Scott Bradner supported the idea: In principle, IETF administrative functions should be outsourced. Decisions to perform specific functions "in-house" s

Re: Other change needed? #722 - 5.4 - ISOC off-account payment for expenses

2005-01-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Agreed. Having originated the "footnote" sentence, I'm quite happy with your replacement. I will be looking for the footnotes, of course ;-) Brian John Loughney wrote: I think your text is reasonable. John L. --- Original message --- Subject: Other change needed?

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread John Loughney
Title: Converted from Rich Text "Minimum staff required" seems uncomfortably worded to me. I am not sure we need to go into this detail, for the reason Scott listed. If we do need to have this leel of detail, could we say 'sufficient staff' or something along those lines?  John L  ---

RE: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-12 Thread Misha Wolf
Bruce Lilly wrote: [lines re-wrapped and annotated with authors' initials] > mw> My understanding of the purpose of the IETF/W3C Liaison group > mw> is, precisely, liaison over issues of importance to both the > mw> IETF and the W3C. bl> Since the draft-philips-... effort isn't an IETF effort,

RE: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-12 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 14:37 12/01/2005, Misha Wolf wrote: A first step could be to compare the two standards bodies' requirements for language tagging, to establish whether they are compatible.  Further steps could follow, depending on the outcome. Note that while HTTP, for example, is an IETF standard, the Web

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I like this resolution. I think the "review against a zero base assumption" captures the essential goal, and the minimum staff was a weak restatement. Yours, Joel At 07:44 AM 1/12/2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On onsdag, januar 12, 2005 07:29:27 -0500 Scott W Brim wrote: On 1/12/20

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread EKR
Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Klensin suggested the following text for the first sentence, and > Scott Bradner supported the idea: > > In principle, IETF administrative functions should be > outsourced. Decisions to perform specific functions > "in-house" should be expl

No communication: #746 IAOC decision making

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
In the -03 version of the document, the following text occurs: 3.4 IAOC Decision Making The IAOC attempts to reach all decisions unanimously. If unanimity cannot be achieved, the IAOC chair may conduct informal polls to determine the consensus of the group. In cases where it is necessary

Items where I think there is already a consensus, or which are covered by other tickets

2005-01-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
I think the following relations hold: - Three of the "financial" tickets are covered by the text changes proposed in #778 (the "Finances" message I sent a few days ago). They are: - #740: Reserves - #748: Quarterly deposits - #772: term "Accruied funds" In addition: - #770 (Compensation for IAOC

Re: Items where I think there is already a consensus, or which are covered by other tickets

2005-01-12 Thread Steve Crocker
Harald, et al, It looks like the BCP process is moving along nicely. Meanwhile, within ISOC, we're studying the draft and focusing on how best to provide the right procedures and support for the IETF. Some ISOC folks have offered up suggestions already. We will try to provide a more compreh

Re: No communication: #746 IAOC decision making

2005-01-12 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, My personal, generic, preference is to put as little specific text into the BCP as possible. Broad principles, yes. But anything very specific, especially anything that is likely to need tuning, should be in the BCP only if there are really strong reasons why that is necessary. So I'd b

Re: No communication: #746 IAOC decision making

2005-01-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Brian, John, Avri and Spencer: Can you state if you have an opinion about whether or not the quorum rules should be in the document or not? Let's get this point settled before we dig into what the quorum rules should be - if they don't go into the BCP, the whole text of #746 gets passed as "ad