On May 31, 2012, at 8:19 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
(1) Establish the Tao as a modified Wiki, complete with live
HTML links to relevant documents and other relevant
discussions.. Provide some mechanism for comments to the editor
or even discussion that works better than the RFC Errata
process. Turn maintenance of that page over to a volunteer or
two (ideally someone young enough to learn a lot from the
process) or the Secretariat. Before someone says "cost",
please calculate the costs to the community of an extended Last
Call in which people debate details of wording.
(2) Appoint Paul as chair of an editorial committee with zero or
more additional members to be appointed at his discretion
subject to advice and consent of the IESG. That committee gets
to consider whether to make changes. If they get it wrong, they
are subject to the community's normal forms of abuse and, in
principle, appeals. That could add a bit of work for the IESG
but I suggest only a bit and less than running a Last Call.
(3) Replace/ obsolete RFC 4677 by a document modeled on RFC
5000. I.e., it should explain why we are maintaining the Tao as
one or more web pages and should provide a durable pointer to
how the web page can be found.
Works for me, other than it should not be a "wiki". It should have one editor
who takes proposed changes from the community the same way we do it now. Not
all suggestions from this community, even from individuals in the leadership,
are ones that should appear in such a document.
Simpler than the above: make it a web page (as Brian points out, we already
have a good URL), have one editor, have one leadership person who approves
non-trivial changes (I think "IETF Chair" fits here well), have a "last
modified" date on it, and update it as needed. If there is consensus in the
community to do this, I'm happy to take on the HTMLizing and skip the RFCizing
for this round.
--Paul Hoffman