--On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 05:50 -0800 IETF Administrative
Director <iad(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org> wrote:
As required by RFC 7691 the IAOC has developed a proposed
update to the IAOAC Administrative Procedures to define the
start and end of the terms of IAOC members
Please see the proposed changes, Draft IAOC Administrative
Procedures dated 8 December 2015 here:
<https://iaoc.ietf.org/documents/IAOC-Administrative-Procedure
s-2015 -02.pdf>.
Please send any comments before 4 February 2016 to
iaoc(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org.
Ray,
Other than some concerns about how long it took you and the IAOC
to post this after 7691 was approved, one observation: With the
first sentence in the first paragraph of Section 2.1(2) as an
example, the document seems to be much more confusingly-written
(and hence hard to read and understand) than it needs to be. I
_think_ I know what that paragraph means, but cannot be sure
without reading it several more times and then studying BCP 101
_and_ the "adopted IAOC policies". For the latter, there is no
citation and it appears that the only way to find whatever is
relevant is to read through some significant fraction of the
documents linked to from
http://iaoc.ietf.org/policy-procedures.html and perhaps some
large percentage of the Minutes (at
http://iaoc.ietf.org/minutes.html), including those that might
document policy decisions that have been approved by not yet
documented.
As part of that confusion, if my vague and faulty memory is
correct, part of the debate leading up to 7691 was about whether
the IAOC could decide to have outgoing members participate in
the selection meeting and, if so, whether one of them could
chair it. I think the decision was to leave such details to the
IAOC's discretion and good sense, but with the understanding
that the details would be documented. This draft does not
appear to satisfy that need -- the questions appear to still be
open.
I don't know if others have similar reactions, but I would have
appreciated it if you had taken the small amount of time to edit
the document presentation before posting to eliminate change
indications, such as "deletions" for renumbered sections, that
are basically spurious artifacts of adding an additional section.
I think you and the IAOC can do a much better job of serving the
community than this draft suggests.
john