Hi Dave and Hannes,
Thank you for triggering this useful discussion. And thank you to
Brian, Patrik and Lucy for their comments as well. A number of good
points have been raised both on the topic and others on the ISOC-IETF
intersection. These are items to be taken up with the ISOC Board,
IAB and the IETF community.
As has been pointed out, ISOC has brought in additional technical
expertise and this, amongst other things, has allowed us to broaden
our activities as it relates to the Internet's development. Lucy
Lynch is championing our Trust & Identity initiative and is the
appropriate contact for that discussion - lynch@xxxxxxxxx
With respect to the ISOC-IETF intersection, Leslie Daigle (ISOC's
Chief Internet Technical Officer), Lucy, and I have been having
similar discussions - not particularly formally, but the interaction
with the IETF and our responsibility to the IETF are always top of our
minds - and of course critically important. Others have been
involved as well, some from the IAB and others such as Russ in his
IETF Chair role (although again not particularly formally) and we will
certainly evaluate appropriate next steps. We are interested in your
thoughts so please reach out to Leslie or me - daigle@xxxxxxxx or st.amour@xxxxxxxx
.
Thanks again,
Lynn
PS. Re: your side note below on the makeup of the ISOC Board, we'll
update the list to show the community or mechanism that appoints/
elects Trustees. In the meantime, the IETF appoints 3 Trustees (out
of 13, 12 voting and me non-voting). The current IETF appointees to
the ISOC Board are: Patrik Fältström, Ted Hardie and Bert Wijnen.
On Mar 1, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
Someone could, for example, come up
with the question why ISOC did not join the MIT Kerberos Consortium
(see
http://www.kerberos.org/), as Kerberos is a technology developed
within the
IETF, or to support technologies like OpenID, OAuth, etc. that are
closer to
the Internet deployment. I am sure your team had a lot of
conversations with the IAB on what
direction would be better for the Internet
Folks,
What is particularly interesting to me, about this line of comment,
is not whether the relevant IETF-based technologies are superior or
whether an ISOC alliance with an industry Alliance was the right
thing to do. There can -- and probably should -- be focussed debate
about such questions. But only within a larger context that I'd
like to raise:
Should there be more or different ISOC/IETF dialogue, when ISOC
is pursuing a strategic topic that is relevant to the IETF?
The IETF/ISOC relationship has changed dramatically, in recent
years, primarily in terms of ISOC involvement in IETF management and
funding. What I do not recall seeing is whether there should be
changes in the involvement of the IETF in ISOC activities.[1]
An easy example is exactly the sort of involvement being implied by
the current thread: When ISOC is choosing to take a strategic
action, should it seek public discussion within the IETF?
Public discussion is messy and IETF-wide consensus is virtually
impossible to obtain for any interesting topic. So I'm not at all
suggesting that ISOC depend upon gaining that from the IETF. Still,
public discussion can surface useful information and opinion.
Let me stress: I don't intend this as criticism. As things change,
we gain insight. The exchange surfaced an issue that struck me as
interesting and potentially useful, and worth pursuing among the
ISOC and IETF communities.
d/
[1] Side note: The list of ISOC Board of Trustees at:
<http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/trustees/board.php>
does not indicate the constituency or selection mechanism that
chose
particular Trustees; it would be helpful to see that included in
the list,
to understand whether they are ex officio, elected by from a
region, or the
like.
--
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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