Poised 95 (poised95) 




Charter



Status: Concluded March, 1996 







Chair(s):











 Karl Auerbach 



 Erik Huizer 



 Bernhard Stockman 







Description of Working Group:



The POISED95 Working Group is a focused effort to resolve some



long-standing issues of the standards process and IETF procedure:







o The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) section of RFC 1602 is widely



  seen as inoperative, because it demands guarantees and procedures



  when licensing technologies that few, if any, donors will accept.







o The procedures of the NOMCOM, or Nominating Committee, have been



  quite informal and different with every NOMCOM.  They need to be 



codified.







o Standards procedure documented in RFC 1602 needs to be restated to



  reflect reality and to remove obsolete provisions.







o The ISOC has proposed creating a link between the IETF and ISOC, and



  has even created a committee to study the issue. The IETF needs a



  corresponding effort.







o Other issues as appropriate.







As befits an international organization, POISED95 will meet in



Stockholm and Dallas to try and gauge a rough consensus on these issues



and develop guidelines and drafts for the appropriate documents.

Request for Comments:

  • RFC2026 The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3 (BCP)
  • RFC2027 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees (BCP)
  • RFC2028 The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process (BCP)
  • RFC2031 IETF-ISOC relationship (Informational)