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Re: Proposed IESG structure change

2014-10-09 07:45:56
Great sentiment from Paul! IMO it is a sign of a healthy organization that
it can recognize and make these kinds of organizational changes.

As they say, adapt or die, change with the times, and don¹t be like the
ITU. ;-)


Jason

On 10/9/14, 1:36 AM, "Jari Arkko" <jari(_dot_)arkko(_at_)piuha(_dot_)net> wrote:

Paul,

As someone who has been active in Apps WGs for 20 years (sigh), I would
hate to see the area disappear, but that kind of thinking has caused the
IETF to hold on to other things much too long.

I wanted to say that while we are talking about changing organisation, we
are *not* abandoning any work. The number of WGs and topics fluctuates,
but I cannot think of many more significant standards efforts at the
moment than what we are doing with HTTP 2.0 for instance. Apps work is
very important, and we continue to be happy to create new working groups
and sponsor BOFs. However, we also feel that slightly bigger group of ADs
would allow some flexibility to deal with the fluctuations, distribute
workload better, etc. So - no disappearance but rather a change in form.

Jari