Just for the record...
At 12:14 PM -0700 9/21/05, David Kessens wrote:
Note that the next proposal for an additional area is just around the
corner: the Internet area has a very heavy load of working groups as
well and the next thing that could easily be imagined is a Mobility
Area which also sounds very reasonable.
Are we going to tell them then that they cannot have their own area
while we just added another one for Real-Time Applications ?
I am very surprised by this statement... There is no proposal on the
table to form a "mobility area" and I don't know of anyone who is
discussing this. Mobility is quite close to the core of the Internet
area, with close tie-ins to IP, addressing/address selection,
multihoming, IP-in-IP tunneling, etc. I would personally object to
the idea of trying to separate IP and Mobility into separate areas.
We did have a discussion within the IESG about whether adding a third
AD to the Internet area would be valuable. I proposed this, because
I believe that the Internet area, while generally being a coherent
group, is quite large, and because I know that the nomcom has found
it difficult to find two ADs who can fully cover the area,
technically. The IESG did not reach consensus that adding a third
Internet AD was a good idea, though, so we do not currently plan to
propose that to the community.
Margaret
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