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Hi,
On 2015-7-22, at 09:50, Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
yep, this is a good summary for what we currently do over on the IRTF side of things. I cooked up the IRTF process, because I wanted to make it easy for anyone to start new work and bring in new ideas, and at the same time make it easy for myself to end
efforts that hadn't come together or had fizzled out.
When someone comes with an idea for a new RG, I ask them to write a page of descriptive text that looks much more like a call for participation for a conference than an IETF charter. If it fits underneath the IRTF's charter and goals, I explain to the
proponents that they should go and reach out to the folks they need to have in the group to make it successful, start having meetings in the way they want to have them (during the IETF week, or at research conferences, interims, etc.), and do work in the way
they want to work.
About a year later, I sit down with the folks and we review what trajectory the group has been on. It's usually very clear to all involved at that point whether something worthwhile has formed or not. That conversation is dramatically different (in a good
way) than the conversation an AD has to have with proponents after a BOF.
Lars
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