At the IETF58 plenary sessions, on November 12 and 13, there was a presentation of the output from the IAB Advisory Committee (AdvComm). See http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-announce/Current/msg26000.html for the charter of the AdvComm. The first draft of the AdvComm report, incorporating feedback received at and following the plenaries, has now been published (draft-iab-advcomm-00.txt). Apart from creating a revision based on any comments received, this brings the work of the IAB Advisory Committee to a close. The IAB and IETF Chairs are now tasked with reviewing the requirements as outlined by the AdvComm report, soliciting input, and putting together a proposal for formalizing the IETF administrative structure to the IAB and IESG for advice and consent, and then to the IETF community for ratification. One message that was heard, loud and clear, at the plenary sessions is that the IETF community would like to remain informed about the progress of proposals. Therefore, the communication plan moving forward is: . comments for clarification of draft-iab-advcomm-00.txt should go to the AdvComm -- advcomm@ietf.org . comments on the substance of moving forward with formalizing IETF structure should go to the IAB and IESG, or the Chairs directly (see addresses above). . I will endeavour to post monthly updates on our efforts, around the middle of each month. If circumstances warrant, updates will be more frequent. . Anything requiring formal consideration will be written up as an Internet-Draft and posted for review. This is the plan for now. If and when there are specific tasks that can/should be separated out for further discussion, we can (and will!) create or target more specific mailing lists. Leslie.
