Moving the process document forward

Keith Moore moore at cs.utk.edu
Fri Sep 5 12:07:44 CEST 2003


> Your proposal touches upon several of the problems documented in the 
> problem issue draft. To list the obvious ones: 

Since there are problems with every part of the IETF organization 
(they're certainly not entirely in IESG and IAB) it is impossible to
have the problems addressed by a part of the organization that doesn't
have problems.

IESG and IAB are in the best position to set up design teams to make
suggestions as to how to solve these problems.   Since design teams have
no official status, other people can also form design teams (or act
as individuals) and write internet-drafts about how to solve these
problems if they want to do so; indeed, some suggestions have already
been presented in that form.

But the alternative to having IESG and IAB set up design teams is to
wait for other people to take the initiative, and this seems unlikely to
produce good results in a timely fashion.

No matter who makes the suggestions, any changes to the existing BCPs
that dictate how we do our work still have to be vetted through the IETF
consensus process.


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