Re: [arch-d] Liaison reports

Hi Alexandre,

Sorry it seems that I have missed your mail and thanks Spencer for chiming in!

I assume your question was aiming at the subquestion if the architecture-discuss list is the appropriate list to discuss this.

As this came up as a side point from anther discussion on that list, I kept the list in cc, so other people that have seen that question can also see my reply. 

The architecture-discuss list is further generally used for discussion about IAB activities related questions and multiple IAB members read this list frequently. However, people are of course also free to send any of these kind of requests directly to the IAB <iab@iab.org>.

Mirja

> On 2. Jun 2020, at 17:34, Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Alexandre, 
> 
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:22 AM Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Are these liaison reports specific to architecture?
> 
> I didn't see an answer to this (did I miss it?), but in  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2850#section-2, the IAB has six responsibilities, only one of which is architectural oversight. 
> 
> "External liaison" is the sixth chartered responsibility..
> 
>    (f) External Liaison
> 
>    The IAB acts as representative of the interests of the IETF and the
>    Internet Society in technical liaison relationships with other
>    organizations concerned with standards and other technical and
>    organizational issues relevant to the world-wide Internet. Liaisons
>    are kept as informal as possible and must be of demonstrable value in
>    improving the quality of IETF specifications.  Individual members of
>    the IETF are appointed as liaisons to other organizations by the IAB
>    or IESG as appropriate.
> 
> 
> So liaison manager reports aren't actually an architecture thing (unless something is going wrong), but they are an IAB thing.
> 
> I should let current members of the IAB provide any followup, of course. Things do change. 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Spencer
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