A draft of an IESG charter

Brian E Carpenter brian@hursley.ibm.com
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:11:51 +0100


Geoff Huston wrote:
> 
> With respect to external liaisons:...
> 
> The external liaison role of the IAB is documented in RFC 2850  (Charter of
> the IAB)
> 
> Current external liaisons are listed at
> http://www.iab.org/Documents/ietf-liaisons.html
> 
> I'm not sure why the respective roles were originally assigned in this
> manner, but it has been a long-standing arrangement.

True. I once floated the idea of a sort of subcommittee to handle liaisons
and "political" stuff, but it doesn't really work - in practice the IAB
has to end up discussing it, and so does the IESG sometimes. 

   Brian