Re: [Int-area] intarea charter

["Laganier, Julien" <julienl at qualcomm.com>]

I support creation of the WG for all the good reasons Jari listed below.
 
--julien

> -----Original Message-----
> From: int-area-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:int-area-bounces at ietf.org] On
> Behalf Of Jari Arkko
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:26 AM
> To: Internet Area
> Subject: [Int-area] intarea charter
> 
> All,
> 
> We have had Internet Area meetings for a number of years now, but I'm
> not sure if anyone's noticed that its formally just a meeting and not
> an official working group. We do have a list, we talk about important
> topics during the meetings, and sometimes we even progress documents
> that have no obvious home elsewhere. We run working group last calls,
> but formally the documents that we take forward are AD sponsored
> individual submissions.
> 
> Ralph and I have reviewed the situation and we think that it would
> be useful to turn the group into an official working group. This
> has a number of benefits:
> 
> - the group would show up in the tools.ietf.org/wg/<WG> directory
>    and other systems
> 
> - we'd have a charter that describes to everyone what the group
>    is supposed to talk about
> 
> - the process would be clearer for, say, adopting a document
> 
> - the ADs would get also a blue dot in their IETF badges :-) or
>    depending on workload, we could hire other chairs, secretaries,
>    and so on to help with the group
> 
> In other words, the group wouldn't be such a special case for
> us to deal with. Thoughts? We have included a suggested charter
> below.
> 
> Jari and Ralph
> 
> -----
> 
> Internet Area Working Group (intarea)
> 
> Last modified: 2009-09-30
> 
> Chairs:
> Jari Arkko <jari.arkko at piuha.net>
> Ralph Droms <rdroms at cisco.com>
> 
> Internet Area (int) Directors:
> Jari Arkko <jari.arkko at piuha.net>
> Ralph Droms <rdroms at cisco.com>
> 
> Internet Area Advisor:
> Jari Arkko <jari.arkko at piuha.net>
> Ralph Droms <rdroms at cisco.com>
> 
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> Description of Working Group:
> 
> The Internet Area Working Group (INTAREA WG) acts as a forum for
> discussing far-ranging topics that affect the entire area. Such
> topics include, for instance, address space issues, basic IP layer
> functionality, and architectural questions.
> 
> The Internet Area receives occasional proposals for the development
> and publication of RFCs that are not in scope of an existing working
> group and do not justify the formation of a new working group. The
> INTAREA WG will also serve as the forum for developing such work
> items in the IETF.
> 
> The working group milestones are updated as needed to reflect the
> current work items and their associated milestones. Significant new
> work items will be brought for approval with the IESG.
> 
> Milestones:
> 
> December 2009  Submission of IPID document to the IESG as PS
> March    2010  Submission of tunneling issues document to the IESG as
> Info
> December 2010  Submission of SEAL document to the IESG as Exp
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