Longer or more meetings?
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
harald@alvestrand.no
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:34:37 +0100
--On tirsdag, desember 10, 2002 09:52:28 -0600 Basavaraj.Patil@nokia.com
wrote:
> I agree with your thinking above. Design teams (with a lead editor) are
> definitely more responsive. And if we really look closely at any active
> piece of work being done in the IETF, the number of key contributors are
> limited. Hence it is possible to form a pseudo team that meets via
> teleconferences in order to make progress. The chairs need to
> facilitate this and hence should be considered as something to be
> added to the current RFC2418.
Something like this?
6.5. Design teams
It is often useful, and perhaps inevitable, for a sub-group of a
working group to develop a proposal to solve a particular problem.
Such a sub-group is called a design team. In order for a design team
to remain small and agile, it is acceptable to have closed membership
and private meetings. Design teams may range from an informal chat
between people in a hallway to a formal set of expert volunteers that
the WG chair or AD appoints to attack a controversial problem. The
output of a design team is always subject to approval, rejection or
modification by the WG as a whole.
It doesn't mention telechats, but I think that's a means, not an end....
Harald