I think we should focus on technology and be neutral on politics.
As an organization we are fully qualified to express a technical opinion
on Internet technology, but we are amateurs when it comes to
understanding the political consequences of our decisions.
The more we let politics impinge on out technical decisions, the greater
the risks that the various governments that support our position as the
Internet design authority will move that support to the ITU which is the
UN (i.e. government run) telecommunications standards body, and is
geared up to consider the political implications of their work.
Rather than consider this aspect of our work, we should put more focus
on putting in place the telecommunications technology we need to have in
place in the 10 to 20 year time-frame. By then we will need bandwidths
in the 1TB class to the users, power consumptions per bit that is minute
compared to the current level, and latencies where the laws of physics
are the only significant factor. It is unclear whether the current
Internet architecture will satisfy those needs without change, and in my
view that is the area that the IAB should attend to, rather than to work
described in this draft.
- Stewart
On 18/03/2019 21:58, Ted Hardie wrote:
Greetings,
The IAB is considering adopting this document onto the IAB stream as
Informational:
https://datatracker..ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-for-the-users/
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-for-the-users/>
with a focus on explaining why decisions in the IETF often are or should
be user-focused.
However, in discussion some felt that there might be interest in
adopting this document into the IETF stream as a BCP (most likely in the
General Area), with a stronger focus on setting guidelines for working
groups when they face these sorts of issues.
The IAB is seeking input from the community about the level of interest
(or disinterest) in the latter approach. Please do so on this list, by
sending mail to architecture-discuss@xxxxxxx
<mailto:architecture-discuss@xxxxxxx> (our public discussion list) or to
iab@xxxxxxxx <mailto:iab@xxxxxxx> (to reach just the IAB). You can also
discuss with individual IAB members in Prague.
Thanks,
Ted Hardie
for the IAB
