IETF Roadmap
Martin Sustrik
The goal of this discussion group is to turn into IETF working group
eventually. What's needed at the moment is a roadmap of how to get there.
The standard process for creating a IETF working group is to hold a BoF
(birds of feather) session at one of the IETF meetings. The BoF should
decide (by consensus) on whether there is a clearly defined problem to
solve, whether it is appropriate to solve it within IETF and whether
there's enough people willing to participate in the working group to
actually solve the problem. (See RFC 5434 for details.)
If the BoF is successful, a proposal can be sent to IESG to create the
working group.
So, I would propose planning for BoF at IETF 83 (March 25-30, 2012,
Paris). It would be great if those interested in the matter would be
able to attend personally. For those that can't attend in person, I'll
try to arrange an audiocast with an option to send comments to the BoF
via IM.
It is also important to involve IETF folks as soon as possible.
What's needed is a background draft, a narrative -- as opposed to strict
technical text as found in requirements draft. The document should then
be widely circulated via IETF mailing lists to draw people interested in
the topic to the discussion group and later on to the BoF.
The goal for the document should be to provide a reader who has little
or no experience with messaging with an idea what it is and what it is
good for, in which areas/industries is is applicable, demonstrate the
above on real-world examples etc.
Luckily, the people in this discussion group come from different areas
which should help making the background document wide in scope and balanced.
My proposal is thus to assemble such draft during this month. It can be
sent to relevant IETF mailing lists on July 1st, leaving us with 9
months to prepare the BoF (refine the requirements document, draft the
tentative WG charter, discuss technical details of the BoF with IETF).
I am on a holiday next week but I'll try to send a skeleton of the
document to this mailing list as soon as I am back.
Thoughts?
Martin
Alexis Richardson
That sounds like a great plan to me.
Have a good holiday :-)
alexis
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> the future. Thus, the posts to this discussion should comply with IETF
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Gary Berger
-g
Martin Sustrik
> I can donate a WebEx session for the event for those who can't make it.
Thanks!
Most IETF sessions, as far as I was able to spot do have audio streaming
and people from outside actively use IM to comment on what's going on in
the room (there's a person who checks the IM and reads the comments on
the mic).
However, I am not sure whether this applies to all BoFs. Let's sort this
out with IETF staff once the BoF is approved.
Martin