[charter-tool] include BOFs?

["David Harrington" <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

I have read draft-ietf-genarea-charter-tool-02 and have some
suggestions.

1) Would it make sense to allow an AD to start a record at the
(optional) BOF stage? The IESG and IAB review starts at the BOF stage.
That might presumably be before the first proposed charter.

2) often the stages include an informal IESG meeting, and requested
IAB review.

3) It might be good if the AD cmments can be identified as discuss or
comment level. We do quite a lot of comment-level wordsmithing; it
would be good if ADs could clearly identify what  they consider to be
the critically important issues. I am not sure if the DISCUSS criteria
apply, or whether a different set of criteria would need to be
applied.

4) for 2.8, it might be good to have milestone baselines (resettable
by the AD) versus current projections (resettable by the chairs with
AD approval), so we can easily see how much the milestones have
slipped.

5) in 2.2, you might want to be able to change the name of a WG (e.g.,
from homegate to homenet). One way to handle this would be to have a
pointer to a second record that continues discussion under a new name
(and the new record should have a pointer to the previous record). 

6) the pointer to a mailing list should be able to be supplemented
when a new (e.g. an ietf list) supercedes an earlier list for
discussion. (or the official mailing list should be able to soemhow
import the old list by value rather than by reference).

7) in 2.10, it ight be useful to ensure that all earlier charters
reflect the info at the time of the earlier charter, such as the
area/AD, and the proposed WG name and acronym.

8) a keyword search might be useful for locating earlier BOFs and/or
concluded WGs. 

9) a record that holds a URL to each concluded WG might be useful
(even if all the record data is not provided by the database)

10) There should be a point, such as at external review, when new-work
is notified of a proposed WG. This may need a manual push-button to
trigger this at the appropriate time.

David Harrington
Director, IETF Transport Area
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