A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Applications Area. The IESG has not made any determination as yet. The following draft charter was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg@ietf.org) by Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Applications Area Working Group (APPSAWG) ------------------------------------------ Current Status: Proposed Working Group Last updated: 2010-09-24 Chair(s): TBD Applications Area Directors: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Applications Area Advisor: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Mailing Lists: TBD Description of Working Group: The Applications Area Directors sometimes receives proposals for the development of specifications dealing with application-related topics that are not in scope for an existing working group and do not justify the formation of a new working group. The Applications Area Working Group (APPSAWG) can serve as a forum for such work in the IETF. The APPSAWG accepts work items in accordance with the consensus of the Working Group and the best judgment of the Applications Area Directors, who are responsible for updating the working group milestones as needed. The working group meets if there are active proposals that require intensive discussion. Work items that are appropriate for the APPSAWG mostly fall under the following topics: (A) Well-defined security issues that are relevant to multiple application technologies (e.g., draft-saintandre-tls-server-id-check). (B) Small-scale additions to the protocol stack for HTTP and other application technologies, mostly related to service discovery and meta-data (e.g., RFC 5785, draft-nottingham-http-link-header, and draft-hammer-hostmeta). (C) Selected other work items addressing topics that historically fall within the Applications Area, such as calendaring, date and time formats, HTTP, internationalization, language tags, MIME, URIs and XML. When considering whether to accept a proposed work item, the APPSAWG and the Applications Area Directors shall take into account the following factors, among others: (1) Whether the WG has consensus on the suitability, importance, and projected quality of the proposed work item. (2) Whether there is core team of WG participants with sufficient energy and expertise to advance the proposed work item according to the proposed schedule. (3) Whether there are enough WG participants who are willing to review the work produced by the document authors or editors. (4) Whether the Area Directors judge that wider input is needed before accepting the proposed work item (e.g., from the IESG, IAB, or another standards development organization). (5) There is no existing related Working Group that is willing to recharter to take on this work, and the document doesn't justify the formation of a new working group. In order to evaluate success of this WG, it is deliberately limited in its duration. The WG needs to close or be rechartered to remove this restriction before July 2011. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
