Re: Transparency of IAOC

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On 12/04/16 22:46, Scott O. Bradner wrote:
> such an exercise is worthwhile & has been underway for a few weeks 
> you will see some results very soon

Excellent!

Thanks,
S.

> 
> Scott
> 
>> On Apr 12, 2016, at 5:34 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> On 12/04/16 21:32, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>> Of course it is. But (compared to the IESG) the IAOC does deal with
>>> a comparatively large fraction of issues that have confidential
>>> aspects - budget negotiation, contract negotiations, staff issues,
>>> operation security, and (with their Trustee hats on) legal issues. So
>>> there are going to be more problems about community access to IAOC
>>> proceedings than for the IESG.
>>
>> What I'm wondering is if, given the above, anyone has done an
>> analysis of what the IAOC really needs to keep confidential and
>> what does not need to be confidential?
>>
>> For example, recent events have fairly conclusively shown that
>> the "cities being considered" data which is related to "contract
>> negotiation" really ought not be confidential, at least in some
>> aggregated form. If you go back some years, the IETF meeting
>> hotel was also a not-so-well-kept secret until bookings opened,
>> and when we changed that the sky did not fall. So that's another
>> example. And if say the vmeet mailing list had been the place
>> where it was decided that IETF-95 remote attendees would have to
>> register, then we might have avoided that fuss. I can't see how
>> making that decision on that public list would have hurt anything
>> even though the fine meetecho support overall nvolves quite a few
>> of the issues related to confidentiality you list above.
>>
>> I don't know if the IAOC has analysed such things more generally.
>> But I hope it does do that once it's sorted out what to do about
>> IETF-100. I suspect that to date, the IAOC has been treating too
>> much data as confidential when that's not really needed. I figure
>> ending up in that state is quite understandable, but is not in the
>> end a good plan.
>>
>> And I don't believe we've actually heard the IAOC say that they
>> do think such a general exercise is or is not worthwhile. I do
>> think that some such statement now that the IAOC will consider a
>> switch to a default-open posture would be very very useful and
>> has not yet been made. (*)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> S.
>>
>> (*) Leslie's mail [1] only referred to reviewing meeting planning,
>> but not e.g. to any broader re-consideration which is what I'm
>> arguing would be better.
>>
>> [1] https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg97545.html
>>
>>
>>
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