Brian,
before asking for volunteers, you should state clearly whether you want
people who will:
- DOCUMENT the EXISTING way the IESG works, and seek approval for that
- PROPOSE a NEW way the IESG can work, that fits the needs of the
community better
The last one is what draft-davies-pesci-next-steps-00 was trying to
suggest when it said:
The most important single management role in the IETF at the moment
is that of the IESG, including the role of IETF Chair. This should
therefore also receive the most scrutiny. It's unreasonable to ask
people to grade their own performance, or to attempt to perform a
role at full speed while having to review how it could be done
otherwise. Therefore, a review of the roles the IESG has should be
rooted outside the IESG - while asking current and former IESG
members for information and advice at every opportunity.
This review should include:
o Creating a list of the tasks that currently gate on the IESG
o Identifying any additional related tasks that might be appropriate
to improve efficiency and effectiveness
o Making proposals for discarding or restructuring the existing
tasks in combination with the new tasks
o Making a proposal for grouping those tasks into separate task
groups that can be assigned to different bodies at need.
o Developing a proposal for how the standards development work of
the IETF should be partitioned to provide optimum efficiency while
allowing the IETF to take on all appropriate work.
o Developing a suggestion for an initial set of bodies for handling
those tasks in the new work partitioning scheme, including, if
appropriate, a restructuring of the IESG.
o Describing the process by which the set of bodies gets modified.
o Describing how members of the proposed bodies get selected,
replaced, and (if needed) removed.
o Proposing a structure for the documentation of the IETF process
that would result from their recommendations
Your words suggest a far more timid approach.
Harald
Brian E Carpenter wrote:
People willing to work actively (i.e draft or
and edit) a document on this topic are
invited to contact me immediately. The objective
is to plan a mini-BOF during the General Area open
meeting at IETF 66. Without committed volunteers
in the community, this work will not happen.
The IESG charter (RFC 3710) was intentionally published
as an Informational RFC to fill a known gap, without the
overhead and formality of a BCP. It may now be appropriate
to refine and adapt it, based on experience and changes
since RFC 3710 was published. At minimum, the creation
of IASA requires makes some updates necessary.
(Note that draft-carpenter-ietf-chair-tasks contains
some relevant comments.)
RFC 3710 was produced by the IESG itself. I would certainly
want IESG members to be involved in any revision, but
it is important that members of the community also
take an active role, to ensure that the result meets
community expectations as well as practical reality.
Brian Carpenter
General Area Director
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