Re: [Int-area] intarea charter

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

Hello Ahmad,

Ahmad Muhanna wrote:
> 
> >
> > Jari Arkko allegedly wrote on 10/12/2009 11:18 AM:
> > > I believe there are two possible paths forward. The first
> > is to keep
> > > the group still as one group. The benefit of this approach is that
> > > time can be spent where it is most urgently needed, e.g., a large
> > > area-wide topic could take an entire meeting slot. It would also be
> > > easy to deal with topics that start out as area-wide
> > discussions but
> > > result in a recommendation in the form of an RFC (e.g., shared ISP
> > > address). Since the group deals with documents along with
> > everything
> > > else, we'd get non-AD chairs who would also manage the area-wide
> > > discussions. That would be with input from the ADs of course, and
> > > Ralph and I really keen on delegating anyway so this would
> > be fine with us.
> >
> > The ADs could show up and lead those discussions without
> > having to chair the WG.
> [Ahmad]
> Hi Scott, I do not mean to create a discussion here, but I just could not
> resist:)
> 
> That is right, but so far we have one model which has been successful
> in running the Discussion forum. My understanding of seamless change, is
> NOT to change the whole model at once! At least keeping the part that
> works well and introduce a partial change is safer. If down the road we
> find out that this model (option # 2) does not work, we always can fall
> back to adopt Model # 1 later.

I am not sure I'm following you here...

The model we currently operate under entails a single non-WG meeting and having both general discussion and document progression under that umbrella.

Starting from there, I think the slightest/seamless change is to continue handling the same things but turn the non-WG umbrella into a WG one, with designated WG chairs.

Best,

--julien