Mentoring [Re: "Adult supervision"]

[Bound, Jim]

One correction. 

Instead of "Internet Technical Development" state IETF Standards
Development.
Two different things all together.

/jim

 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jari Arkko [mailto:jari.arkko at piuha.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 12:50 PM
> To: Spencer Dawkins
> Cc: problem-statement at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: Mentoring [Re: "Adult supervision"]
> 
> 
> Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> > Brian/Edward,
> > 
> > Might a problem statement for this be:
> > 
> > - We don't have a good way to help new participants learn "things 
> > everyone knows". The "Tao of the IETF" is focused on work 
> style, not 
> > technical principles. When we try to reveal guiding technical 
> > principles as part of post-WG document review, the input is a "late 
> > surprise", and the process does not scale.
> 
> Yes. Perhaps one step towards this would be to produce more 
> documentation of "things everyone knows", or the desired 
> direction of the Internet technical development. While this 
> does require effort, it probably requires less effort than 
> telling the same issues to everyone in person, and then 
> repeating the process every year. Additionally, the IETF 
> process would ensure that we'd have IETF-wide consensus on 
> these issues.
> 
> For instance, there's been some recent documents on how to 
> write security considerations sections, how to apply specific 
> security protocols to applications, etc. This kind of work is 
> quite useful, but I suspect more documentation on various 
> different issues would be needed. For instance, in one case 
> we had a lot of discussions with the IESG on extensibility of 
> protocols and how desireable that is (or not) in the 
> Internet. Perhaps that could be the subject of one BCP RFC.
> 
> Anyways, I can see that www.iab.org/draft-iab.html has some 
> useful documents, some of which I hadn't seen before. Hmm... 
> perhaps we need also additional marketing of such documents 
> in areas that can benefit from them.
> 
> --Jari
> 
>