Apart from WG overlap, there is also topic overlap. Many congestion
control issues are in fact application issues: how many transport
connections in parallel, how often should new connections be started,
dealing with thundering herds, adapting to variable delays, adapting to
variable capacity, etc.
-- Christian Huitema
On 9/9/2023 3:00 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
It seems to me in the topic of "which groups belong in the same area"
that we have the blue sheets and the mailing list memberships, so we
could do clustering analysis to see what groups have the most overlap of
participants!
(not to mention session conflict and key participant lists)
Bron.
On Sat, Sep 9, 2023, at 00:52, touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, all,
I don’t think this works at all. Transport protocol issues and web
(which is app) issues are completely different skillsets. Putting them
into a group doesn’t magically increase the pool of skilled
participants or chairs. IMO, it would only amplify the gap.
Although I appreciate that transport is a difficult area to get chairs
from, the key here seems to be finding a way to reduce the workload
(so it isn’t nearly a full time job) and finding ways to support the
position (so we can get candidates outside the pool of commercial
employees).
Joe
—
Dr. Joe Touch, temporal epistemologist
www.strayalpha.com
On Sep 8, 2023, at 7:44 AM, Martin Duke <martin.h.duke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The IESG proposes to reorganize the areas by merging the web-related
working groups in ART with most of the transport area to create a new
area called either “Web and Application Transport” (WAT) or
“Transport and Web Applications” (TWA), effective at IETF 119. The
IESG invites community comment on this change.
The Transport area (TSV) is the smallest area in terms of working
groups. More importantly, it has been extremely difficult to find
candidates for the two Transport AD positions for many years.
Although the Transport Area could be managed by one AD, the IESG
strongly feels that having a partner is very important for vacation
coverage, managing working groups, handling conflicts of interest,
and so on.
Meanwhile, the Applications and Real Time (ART) area has been
growing. The IESG has already requested a third AD position for ART
to be seated by the NomCom in 2024. One of these three ART ADs would
move to the new area, together with one AD from TSV. Concurrently
eliminating a position prevents growth in the overall size of the IESG.
Similar to the OPS area, this new area would have two centers of
gravity (transport layer and web applications), so that one AD would
have transport expertise and the other would have HTTP expertise.
Thematically, this new area would have cohesion around traditional
Transport subjects and ART protocols that are often used as
transports (especially HTTP). These groups tend to have significant
attendance overlaps.
*Affected Working Groups*
The following working groups would move outside both ART and the new
area:
*
ALTO to OPS
*
DTN to INT
*
IPPM to OPS
*
SCIM to SEC
*
TIGRESS to SEC
The new area would consist of the following working groups:
*
AVTCORE
*
CDNI
*
CCWG
*
CORE
*
HTTPAPI
*
HTTPBIS
*
MASQUE
*
MOQ
*
NFSV4
*
QUIC
*
RTCWEB
*
TAPS
*
TCPM
*
TSVAREA (to be renamed in accordance with the new area and an
updated description/purpose)
*
TSVWG (this may require a minor recharter, but would retain the
same competencies)
*
WEBTRANS
All other ART working groups would remain in place.
The Transport Area Review Team (TSVART) would not change its purpose,
scope, or operations. The Transport-focused AD would have primary
responsibility for managing this team. The HTTP Directorate would
also remain as-is and would be overseen by the HTTP-oriented AD of
the new area. Details about ARTART are TBD.
*Transition Plan*
The IESG would request that NomCom not fill the open TSV AD position
currently occupied by Martin Duke. Francesca Palombini and Zahed
Sarker would be the initial ADs for the new area.
The IESG would also request that one of the two ART openings be
filled for only a one-year term, so as to stagger future ART AD terms.
The new area’s AD terms would initially also end at the same time. In
the 2024-2025 NomCom cycle, the IESG would request that the NomCom
fill two slots, one with transport expertise and one with HTTP
expertise, either of which could be a one-year term (but not both).
*Next Steps*
Please submit any comments on this plan, including the name/acronym
to iesg@xxxxxxxx <mailto:iesg@xxxxxxxx>no later than 20 Sep 2023
(anywhere on Earth).
Concurrently, the IESG will work on updated job descriptions to be
transmitted to the NomCom. It anticipates this update will be
relatively minor.
On Behalf of the IESG,
Martin Duke
Transport AD
--
Bron Gondwana, CEO, Fastmail Pty Ltd
brong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
