Spencer Dawkins wrote:
Well, the one that really pushes my button is when someone, probably a
vendor, but even sometimes an operator, comes to the mic and says "The
Really Big SDO needs this work." Its impossible to know if this person
has any official standing at the Really Big SDO, or if it is a
possition that that person would just wish that SDO would take.
John
Two related points here - one is that we do have "official liasions" on
the IAB website (at http://www.iab.org/liaisons/index.html), so it is
theoretically possible to identify these liasions, but not everyone
knows about this, and not everyone thinks to look, and the second is
that a number of interesting communities don't have an official liasion
to/from the IETF, so John's statement very clearly applies in these cases.
How SDO inputs should be taken into account in our standards process
is indeed undefined and IMHO needs to be defined.
These communities may not even be SDOs - they can be operator consortia,
vendor consortia, industry consortia, or Lord knows what.
Ah, but those we can simply treat as individual contributions, because
there is no reason to do otherwise.
When I was attending 3GPP, Stephen Hayes was the official liasion, and
in my experience he was VERY conservative about saying "this is what
3GPP needs/wants/expects". Not everyone who stands at the microphone is
as consciencious as Stephen. I was in one working group meeting
yesterday where two people were arguing about the timeframe an external
SDO really expects from the IETF - that's not helpful to the IETF or to
the external SDO (who may get what it wants from the IETF, or what
someone thought it should want).
And this is the undefined case.
Brian
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