why don't you have an irc meeting so we can all publically give our comments on this. regards joe baptista Joe Baptista - only at www.baptista.god Free Tibet http://free.tibet/ On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > Hello, > > in December, I published an internet-draft called > "draft-iesg-charter-00.txt", containing a proposed text for an IESG charter. > A revised version (-01) was published in January based on comments. > > A version with some further clarifications is created, but not published > before the cutoff - it's available at > http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/chair/iesg-charter.txt > > Some discussion has taken place on the POISED list > (poised@lists.tislabs.com), but the point has been made that for such a > potentially important document, the IETF list may actually be a more > appropriate venue for discussion. Hence this note. > > This IESG charter attempts to capture what the IESG has believed that it > has been asked to do by the IETF community. Most of the document is simply > collecting references to sections of other IETF BCP documents, and > attempting to form a coherent picture of what the IESG is supposed to be > doing. I do not believe that it shows the IESG to be much different from > what the community currently believes it is. > > What I hope to do with this document is: > > - Discuss it on this mailing list and on the POISED mailing list as the > community finds appropriate > > - Discuss it privately in San Francisco with those who are concerned, and > in the plenary if there are questions raised from the community > > - Send out a revised version some time after San Francisco > > - Issue a four-week Last Call for BCP on the document once discussion has > stabilized > > - Approve it for BCP before the Vienna IETF > > At the Vienna IETF, the "problem" working group is scheduled to make a > consensus call on the process for *changing* the IETF process. While the > shape of the result is still unknowable, I believe it's likely that among > the outputs of such a process will be a greatly changed IESG charter. > > But until then, I believe there is value in publishing this document. > > What does the community think? > > Harald Alvestrand > > > > >