Web Elucidation of Internet-Related Developments (weird)




Charter



Status: Concluded February, 2001 







Chair(s):







 Christopher Burke 







Description of Working Group:



The WEIRD working group will develop a set of web pages.  The



target audience is people new to the IETF and other Internet   



generalists. Content within the scope of the group includes:



current IETF WG and BOF activities, dependencies and



interrelationships among specific IETF WG and BOF activities, BOF



historical information, IAB / IESG / Secretariat issues and topics



of interest and their impact.







Content specifically out of scope includes: information



interpreting trends in Internet engineering and standards;



IETF-related information that is editorial in nature.







It is thought that by starting with concrete information of



general interest related to a topic the WG knows well (IETF



activities), the concept of doing web pages would be well-tested.



Future evaluations of the process could address the question of



re-examining the audience or content scope.







Web content will be developed in collaboration with the IETF



Secretariat using a mix of new material and material from existing



Web pages and FYI documents.  Information will be presented



in an online format suitable for the casual Internet user,



combining text and illustration.







In order to create a historic archive of the online data and to



make it more accessible to users who may have difficulty with



online access, the working group will capture at least one



snapshot of the web pages and publish it as an FYI RFC.