ISOC-Directed Approach [Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-problem-process-00.txt

Brian E Carpenter brian at hursley.ibm.com
Sun May 18 17:41:13 CEST 2003


Dave Crocker wrote:
...
> 
> >>  5.2.2.2 ISOC-Directed Approach
> >>
> >>     Another approach would be to ask the ISOC President and the ISOC
> >>     Board of Trustees (ISOC BoT) to assume responsibility for the
> >>     oversight of the IETF Improvement WG, similar to our current
> >>     Nominations Committee processes, as defined in RFC 2727 [RFC2727].
> >>
> BEC> Although I am currently an ISOC Trustee, I certainly can't speak for
> BEC> the ISOC on this. However, I wouldn't advocate it. Only a few members
> BEC> of the ISOC Board are truly familiar with the IETF's internal workings.
> BEC> Having the Board accept the final documents, as noted above, is enough.
> 
> The idea is to model the process after the ISOC portion of the Nomcom
> process.

Bad idea. That works essentially as a process check, since most ISOC Board
members don't know most of the IAB nominees. We need more than a process
check in this case, imho.

   Brian




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