IESG transparency

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

good point.
one which was also raised in Yokohama.

question: should the IETF have a charter?


--On mandag, november 11, 2002 06:15:14 -0500 RJ Atkinson 
<rja@extremenetworks.com> wrote:

>
> Folks not infrequently stop me in the hallway at an IETF meeting,
> erroneously thinking that the IAB can tell the IESG what to do.
>
> A common complaint is that the IESG is not transparent.  This is
> normally followed up with a single repeated question:
> 		Where is the IESG charter online ?
>
> The person then notes that the IAB charter is online in an RFC,
> but they haven't been able to locate the IESG charter, could I
> please tell them the RFC number so they can go read it.
>
> This email is far from the first time this issue has been raised.
> So far, the IESG for some years has played ostrich on this question,
> sticking its head in the sand and hoping the question will go away.
>
> A fair portion of the community thinks that the IESG needs to have a
> specific written charter.  Bits of one are implied in RFC-2026, but
> the scope of authority/responsibility of the IESG is not defined
> anyplace in clear terms.
>
> The best thing would be for the IESG to draft up a charter for themselves,
> then run it through the usual processes to become a BCP or such like.
> Absent that, they might find one day that part of the community writes
> a draft charter for them that they like less than the one they'd write
> themselves.
>
> Note well that nothing in this note advocates any particular
> growth/shrinkage/change in IESG's responsibilities, it merely notes that
> the lack of a published charter is one of the reasons the IESG has
> transparency issues with the broader community.
>
> Ran
> rja@extremenetworks.com
>
>