Thanks you pointed to what needs to be discussed or what needs to be changed. My comments below,
On Monday, March 17, 2014, Ted Lemon wrote:
On Monday, March 17, 2014, Ted Lemon wrote:
While we certainly don't need a web site that doesn't continue to fill the needs of its existing community, it's worth asking if "we" really means what various people who have weighed in on this think it means. What is the target audience for the web site?
That is the key question for web change to better involvement with the user community.
Is it IETF attendees? The press? People who use our protocol specifications? The open source community? Young geeks learning about networking? Governments? Other standards bodies?
That includes the internet community, but IETF participants (usually number of active participants in IETF did not change and their preferences may not change) should not object to change because change will include more opportunities within the dynamic internet community.
Nearly 100% of the time when I go to the IETF web site it's to look up when the next meeting is, or when a previous meeting was. Everything else I tend to access through the datatracker. Am I a typical user? Are you a typical user?
Usually I think IETF participants are mostly not using IETF web site, they are more focused on WG activities.
I don't know what the answer to these questions is, but I suspect that if you look at this effort strictly from the perspective of "what would work for me," you probably are narrowing the scope way too much to be useful.
The subject says IAOC seeks community input so that means from internet community perspective not only perspective of active participants. I think that the answer is that the IETF web site needs changes to be more marketing to total internet community related announcements, activities or events.
AB