I've decided to follow recent tradition and create a directorate for the
General area, to advise and support the General AD and the WG chairs.
The General Directorate is created to advise the General AD in the
task of managing the working groups dealing with rulemaking, process
design and IETF organizational maintenance - "getting the IETF to
work".
The intent is to help make sure the various efforts are pulling in
compatible directions, and that what needs to be done is actually
getting done by someone.
The formal responsibility of a directorate is to advise the AD(s), not
to make decisions. Directorate members have no special authority.
The directorate currently consists of:
Harald Alvestrand - <Harald@alvestrand.no>
Bernard Aboba - <aboba@internaut.com>
Brian Carpenter - <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
Leslie Daigle - <Leslie@thinkingcat.com>
Spencer Dawkins - <spencer@mcsr-labs.org>
John Klensin - <klensin@jck.com>
John Loughney - <john.loughney@nokia.com>
Margaret Wasserman - <mrw@windriver.com>
The directorate can be contacted by sending e-mail to
<gen-dir@alvestrand.no>.
The General directorate web page is at
http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/directorate.html, and is linked from the
list of directorates at http://www.ietf.org/u/chair/directorates.html
I hope this is going to be an useful function for all of us!
Harald
