On 28 May, the IESG approved the creation of the Applications and Real-Time (ART) Area, which will replace the existing Applications (APP) and Real-time Applications and Infrastructure (RAI) Areas. All existing working groups from those two areas will move into the new ART Area, and the three existing area directors -- Alissa Cooper, Barry Leiba, and Ben Campbell -- will be the ART ADs (or "ART Directors"). In addition, the CDNI working group will move from TSV to ART. Barry will be the responsible AD for CDNI, and no other AD assignments will change. The Secretariat will immediately begin working on the administrative changes required, and the change from APP+RAI to ART will be effective as soon as the administrative work can be completed.
