The IESG has asked Alex Zinin, routing co-AD, to take on the additional role of co-Area Director for the temporary sub-IP area. He will be working with with Bert Wijnen, who is also co-AD of the Operations & Management area, and who has been Sub-IP AD since the inception of the area. In November 2002, the IESG said the following about the Sub-IP area In this situation, the IESG has come to the following conclusion - We will NOT close the sub-IP area by March 2003. We will instead encourage the WGs that we think are nearly finished to finish up their work, work further with the architecture of the "sub-IP" technologies, and, together with the participants, try to find the optimal solutions for the management of the working groups. - We will NOT ask for a new AD for the area. We will instead look at the composition of the IESG after March, and determine then which are the best ADs to take on the additional burden of shepherding the sub-IP area. The IESG will continue to evaluate the situation, based on community input, and revisit the issue in March 2003. If the likely outcome is that the area will have only 2 or 3 working groups by the end of 2003, the IESG will propose a transition schedule for migrating unclosed Working Groups and shutting down the area. If there appears to be significant reason for expanding work in this area, without going outside the boundaries of the areas for which the IETF has traditionally been able to contribute significantly to, the IESG may choose a different strategy at that time. The IESG is still evaluating possible strategies for the Sub-IP area, and will continue these discussions at the IETF meeting in San Francisco. We would like to extend our thanks to Scott Bradner for his efforts in managing the Sub-IP area from its inception to the present. Harald Alvestrand For the IESG
