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From: "IETF Administrative Director" <iad(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
To: "IETF Announcement List" <ietf-announce(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:59 PM
One of the IAOC goals for 2013 was to update the IAOC website to improve
consistency, organization, linkage, and ease of use.
I am pleased to announce that the IAOC site has been updated and is
available
now for your use at <http://iaoc.ietf.org/>.
On the home page see a video of an Overview of the IAOC given by Chair
Bob
Hinden in Orlando that includes a discussion of venue selection and IETF
finances. Also on the home page are recent announcements, as well as
reports
from IANA, the RFC Editor, the IETF Chair, the NomCom Chair, and more.
The navigation bar makes it easy to find financial statements, minutes,
meeting sponsorship opportunities, and much more.
We hope you find this helpful, the IAOC as more transparent, and of
course we
welcome your feedback.
<tp>
"Could Do Better".
The main impression that this page has on me is that this is a part of
the IETF, because that is the style of the page and that is what the
navigation on the left tells me; perhaps this is one of those Working
Groups I have never heard of:-(
The very brief description - "the fiscal and administrative support" -
makes me think of taxes (and tax avoidance) while the link to an RFC,
which starts with loads of irrelevant - to the likely reader of this
page (I assume someone relatively new to the work of this SDO) -
boilerplate is enough to make anyone reach for the off-switch, and
guaranteed to do so if they get as far as IAD, IASA, ISOC, etc.
Alphabet
soup indeed!
I have tried - and failed - to produce a paragraph which summarises what
IAOC is. I would start with the need of the IETF for e-mail and web
servers, and a few other bits and pieces such as legal advice and
ownership of rights, then the need for money to fund that, where the
money comes from and how the expenditure is supervised and where ISOC
fits into that - but not an RFC in sight - or site. This would not need
to mention the IAD but cannot, IMO, avoid IASA.
Tom Petch
</tp>
Ray
IETF Administrative Director
PS: Going to IETF 87 in Berlin? The IAOC will be doing another
overview
session there, Sunday July 28 at 3:00 PM. Hope to see you there!