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