Re: [Int-area] intarea charter

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

> 
> [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.
> 
> => IMHO, we are not supposed to run test(s) as this can lead 
> to a "mess" if we take into account the generally "slow" IETF 
> ways of moving forward...
> 
> IMHO, it is better to stay on an already tested and 
> successful path (i.e., option 1).
[Ahmad]
Hi Wassim,

Okay.. But I have not seen a meeting that is well attended after the
plenaries as this meeting. 

But as I said, we may differ here and that is absolutely fine. I hope
that the group will pick the best option for meeting the goals!

Best Regards,
Ahmad

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wassim H.
> 
> 
> >
> > > The second possibility is to create two groups, a
> > discussion forum and
> > > a document development group. The benefit of this approach
> > is that the
> > > two roles are clearly separated and similar to what has
> > been done on
> > > other areas. Two sets of chairs would be needed, and at
> > least the ones
> > > for the document part would not be the ADs. A potential 
> downside is 
> > > that if we create a new group in a place where we
> > traditionally have
> > > not had that much work, we might open an avenue for publishing 
> > > unnecessary documents, documents that were rejected by
> > existing working groups or BOFs, etc.
> > > Scheduling the two groups might also be harder than it is
> > now, as the
> > > time split between the two would be fixed.
> >
> > Model #1 makes sense to me, for the positive and negative 
> reasons you 
> > cite for both.  It's much easier just to have one group.
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