Selecting leadership for process issues

RJ Atkinson rja@extremenetworks.com
Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:07:39 -0500


It seems to me that because of its critical importance, this might be a 
good topic
for even broader community input (broader than the set of folks on this 
list).

On Monday, Dec 2, 2002, at 07:37 America/Montreal, Harald Tveit 
Alvestrand wrote:
> One issue I've been thinking about:
>
> what's an appropriate way to select the people to lead the effort to 
> rethink the IETF?
>
> At the moment, I think we know the following:
>
> - We need someone who is not the current leadership to take charge of 
> the process
> - We need an open forum (most likely called a WG) to get input into 
> the process and discussion among people
> - We need some kind of work team to make sense of the input and do the 
> heavy lifting on drafting the problem statements and (eventually) 
> proposed solutions.
>
> But how should we get this structure into place, and who should man it?
>
>                      Harald
>