Re: [Int-area] intarea charter

["Ahmad Muhanna" <amuhanna at nortel.com>]

Hi,

I believe this meeting has been very beneficial and useful in the sense
that it is a little different than regular working groups:) It served as
somewhat an open forum for exchanging/presenting new big ideas and
things that is important to the internet, etc. 

I do not mind moving this to a working group as long as we have another
alternative with the same format.

The fact that this meeting attracted quite huge audience is a testimony
that it is doing some thing special!

Regards,
Ahmad
 

> -----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 11:26 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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