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Re: AdminRest: New version of IASA BCP document available

2004-11-17 05:56:49
Harald,
the first look of it seems to be comprehensive and balanced enough. But there is a problem you will have to address sooner or later which is the "usage" (whatever you name the technically competent users) representation. ISOC is supposed to include it. You can claim that them being involved, users are represented. But the more you split from the ISOC structure and formalize the things, the more you will need to introduce users/consumers representation. I know that ISOC has no real structure for that: this may be the occasion to lead that creation, and to keep it with IASA when it eventually probably split, some time in the future.

Taking manufacturers/operators (labelled as "market") as usage representatives is why IETF is not innovative. This works well to improve status quo. Not to move seriously ahead. We all know that at some stage IDNA, IPv6, etc. will be necessary/used. But experience shown that techies being convinced does not lead users moves, because they want more important reasons for investment, serious ROI opportunities and the really move when they cannot do otherwise. This is exactly what RFC 3869 says. IAB calls for Govs (which are organized and leading users) funding for R&D, indentifying that pure operators/manufacturers (market) funding will not be enough.

jfc


At 07:22 17/11/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
and here's the draft name.....
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA)
        Author(s)       : R. Austein, B. Wijnen
        Filename        : draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-00.txt
        Pages           : 17
        Date            : 2004-11-16
This document describes the structure of the IETF Administrative
  Support Activity (IASA) as an IETF-controlled activity housed within
  the Internet Society (ISOC) legal umbrella.  It defines the roles and
  responsibilities of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee
  (IAOC), the IETF Administrative Director (IAD) and ISOC in the fiscal
  and administrative support of the IETF standards process.  It also
  defines how the IAOC will be comprised and selected.

A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-00.txt


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