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RE: WG Review: Internet Wideband Audio Codec (codec)

2010-01-05 15:23:27
Roni Even said:

 

"I do not think that the IETF should accept any work because people want to
do it, if this is the case a group of people can come and ask to start
working on any idea they have that has some relation to the Internet. IETF
should accept work that is in scope for of the IETF  and for which there is
enough knowledge to evaluate the work by the participants."

 

I would like to suggest two principles that appear to have guided decisions
of this kind in the past: 

 

1.      The "scope" of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)  is work
relating to Internet Engineering.  

2.      Standards work is best carried out within the organization that
potential active participants prefer to work in.   

 

These principles suggest that if proposed work relates to Internet
Engineering and a group of people are both interested in doing work in the
IETF and have demonstrated competence, then that work can be chartered
within the IETF.  

 

Witness the chartering of the TRILL and CAPWAP WGs.  In these cases,
participants expressed a preference to do the work within the IETF, and
demonstrated the competence to take it on.  Those WGs were chartered within
IETF.   Similar decisions were made with respect to WGs that subsequently
landed in the Sub-IP Area. 

 

There have also been situations where work was clearly related to Internet
Engineering, but it was also clear that participants preferred to do that
work elsewhere.  In that case, the IETF transferred the work to another SDO
(see RFC 4663). 

 

 

 

 

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