Hi Miles,
At 08:27 28-04-2014, Miles Fidelman wrote:
I think it's more accurate to say that the IETF has an "official
role" as the standards body for Internet protocols - and there may
be a mismatch between:
I was looking at the matter from an appeals perspective. I think
that it might be more effective than discussing about "official role".
- how that role is "officially defined" (such that it is)
- what responsibilities go with such a role (based on expectations
and experience with analogous environments and standards bodies that
have a longer history - such as IEEE, ANSI, ISO, ITU, ...)
I'll leave the above questions to people with expertise about these topics.
- how IETF understands and executes its role (and given the somewhat
bottom-up, ad hoc nature of IETF - how it's organization, policies,
and operating procedures map onto exercising "official" roles and
responsibilities"
That's an IETF governance question. :-)
- what holes there are that might need to be plugged, and how they
might be plugged
The missing question in the above is "who is going to do the work".
Regards,
S. Moonesamy