Re: [Edm] [arch-d] New IAB Program: Evolvability, Deployability, & Maintainability (EDM)

Tony,

Do you have any constructive feedback about the program, or other work that we should focus on? Just calling it 'pointless' doesn't help.

> On 26 Aug 2020, at 7:53 am, tony.li@tony.li wrote:
> 
> 
> Seems like point 1 should be ignoring pointless IAB programs.
> 
> There’s work to be done. This isn’t it.
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
>> On Aug 25, 2020, at 2:47 PM, IAB Executive Administrative Manager <execd@iab.org> wrote:
>> 
>> A new IAB Program has been formed on Evolvability, Deployability, & 
>> Maintainability (EDM). For additional information, please contact the 
>> IAB or the Program Lead.
>> 
>> Evolvability, Deployability, & Maintainability (EDM) Program
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> IAB Lead:
>> Tommy Pauly <tpauly@apple.com>
>> 
>> Mailing list:
>> Address: edm@iab.org
>> To subscribe: https://www.iab.org/mailman/listinfo/edm
>> Archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/edm/
>> 
>> 
>> Program Page: https://www.iab.org/activities/programs/evolvability-deployability-maintainability-edm-program/
>> 
>> Program Description:
>> 
>> This program will focus on how to practically encourage best practices 
>> within the IETF to ensure that the IETF’s standards process considers 
>> protocol evolution, deployability, and long-term maintainability. This 
>> group will work on documents that catalog and analyze successful 
>> strategies for protocol evolution, deployment, and maintenance, such as 
>> updating and extending RFC 6709. Moreover, it will focus on ways to help 
>> promote and increase awareness of these strategies within the IETF via 
>> program meetings, workshops, and helping organize efforts within working 
>> groups and various IETF teams. The program will include members of the 
>> IESG and the tools team to help implement these strategies.
>> 
>> The topics this group will consider include:
>> 
>> * Evolvability: Encourage protocols to design for extensibility and 
>> greasing, and promote the use of extension points to prevent 
>> ossification. Make it easy for people, especially those who aren’t 
>> steeped in IETF process, to know which extension points are the right 
>> ones to use for a given protocol (and which ones should be considered 
>> more stable/ossified), and make sure there aren’t high allocation 
>> barriers to use those extension points.
>> 
>> * Deployability: Focus on how we make “running code” something that is 
>> better integrated into the working group process. Look at methods to 
>> catalog implementations, tools for tracking interoperability testing 
>> on different protocol versions, or repositories of which versions of 
>> protocols are implemented and used on the Internet. Discuss how 
>> deployments can advertise experiments they are running.
>> 
>> * Maintainability: Many working groups have expressed a desire to have 
>> ways for the community of protocol designers and implementers to keep 
>> track of the current state of affairs in deployment patterns, known 
>> errata/bugs, or best practices. Help promote consistent ways to host 
>> non-RFC working group output, like FAQs, wikis, and discussion venues. 
>> Consider how this community involvement can continue and involve the 
>> right experts, even after a working group closes.
>> 
>> The program will:
>> 
>> * Engage with the IETF community and implementers outside of the IETF to 
>> identity successes and problem areas, and collect ideas for 
>> improvements.
>> * Work with the IESG and directorates to determine how best practices 
>> for evolvability can best be applied during IESG review and IETF last 
>> call.
>> * Work with the IESG and tools team on ways to connect implementers and 
>> communities that develop and maintain protocols, both while a working 
>> group is active, and after a working group has concluded its charter.
>> 
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