Re: please double-check your charters

[Cindy Morgan <cmorgan at amsl.com>]

Please see in-line.

> On 2009-10-21, at 12:45 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2009-10-21, at 3:40, Alexa Morris wrote:
> > > On Friday and yesterday, Cindy checked the 121 active working group
> > > charters by combing through the IETF-Announce archives.
> >
> > thank you very much!
> >
> > > She discovered that:
> > >
> > > - 6 did not match the most recent WG Action message (she updated  
> > > these)
> > > - 2 more that did not match had been caught and fixed last week
> >
> > Could you let us all (or at least the chairs/ADs involved) know  
> > which WGs those were?

The 8 affected working groups were:

- 16NG
- ADSLMIB
- DCCP
- FECFRAME
- ROHC
- SIMPLE
- SMIME
- TCPM

To clarify what Alexa said above, for the 6 that were discovered  
during the audit, the AD for the group was contacted and asked to  
review both the web charter and the WG Action message and let me know  
which was correct.  So far, in all of these cases it has been the WG  
Action message that was correct, and the charters on the web have been  
fixed accordingly.  At this point, SMIME is the only one that has not  
been fixed, as I'm waiting to hear back from the AD.

> > > - 16 did not appear to have a WG Action message in the IETF-Announce
> > > archives (so she contacted the appropriate AD to ask them to review
> > > the website for accuracy)
> > > - 97 of WGs appeared to have the correct charter text
> >
> > Was only the charter text checked, or also the milestones? (I  
> > believe that the DCCP chairs found that their milestones were also  
> > corrupted somehow.)

Only the charter text ("Description of Working Group") was checked.   
Since milestones can be updated at any time without sparking a new WG  
Action message, there unfortunately isn't really a reliable way to  
check the milestones on the web charter against anything else.  FWIW,  
other parts of the charter, like the listing of WG Chairs, Area  
Directors, Technical Advisors, etc. appear not to have been affected.

Best regards,
Cindy

> > Thanks again,
> > Lars
> >
> > > In addition, our IT department verified that the charters are being
> > > updated correctly here and that any issue with them being updated
> > > improperly appears to be an old one, even if it was only recently
> > > discovered.
> > >
> > > If anyone has remaining questions, please feel free to contact me.
> > >
> > > Alexa