[Gendispatch] Re: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-gendispatch-org-proc-docs-00.txt

[Ted Hardie <[e-mail]>]

Hi Jay,

It appears we disagree on this point.  From my perspective the scope
assigned to the LLC in RFC 8711 pretty clearly puts decisions on how the
standards track works out of scope; here's the language in the RFC as
opposed to the web page:

The document does not propose any changes related to the standards process
as currently conducted by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)
and Internet Architecture Board (IAB) (see BCP 9 [RFC2026
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8711.html#RFC2026>] and BCP 39 [RFC2850
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8711.html#RFC2850>]). In addition, no
changes are made to the appeals chain, the process for making and
confirming IETF and IAB appointments (see BCP 10 [RFC8713
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8711.html#RFC8713>]), the technical work
of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) (see [RFC2014
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8711.html#RFC2014>]), or to ISOC's
membership in or support of other
organizations.

I think having the LLC (qua LLC) be the author of a document that
supersedes the current description of core standards processes is a change
in scope of the work of the LLC.  None of that is to say that the
professional authors in the LLC would not have that capability, but I
believe it should not be dispatched to them as an LLC task.

regards,

Ted Hardie


On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 8:49 AM Jay Daley <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Ted
>
> > On 24 Sep 2024, at 13:36, Ted Hardie <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi. Eliot,
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 2:31 AM Eliot Lear <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > <snip>
> >     • We dispatch this to the LLC (assuming they are okay with that) to
> perform the consolidation, with the understanding that the goal is not to
> create or change any policy but to simply document it all in a way agreed.
> >
> >
> > If you review https://www.ietf.org/administration/overview/ you will
> see that work like this is explicitly out of scope:
> >
> > The IETF LLC has no role in the oversight or steering of the standards
> process as currently conducted by the IESG and IAB, the appeal chain, the
> confirming bodies for existing IETF and IAB appointments, the IRTF, or
> ISOC's memberships in other organizations.
> >
> > At least as I recall it, that separation was a core part of developing
> the community consensus around the IETF LLC approach.  Dispatching
> documents that describe the standards process to them seems to me to be a
> non-starter as a result.  If you want to hire an editor, I think you have
> to do it outside the LLC itself.
>
> LLC staff regularly act as professional authors, writing primarily website
> content relating to all aspects of the IETF, including the standards
> process.  Most of the time this is simply taking existing content and
> rewriting it in a more consistent, accessible and integrated (i.e. reducing
> several overlapping pages to one) form.  Whenever we do so, the content is
> checked by IESG members and other community members before publication.
>
> For examples, see my regular updates to the now closed tao-discuss list
> about reuse of Tao content
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/tao-discuss/ and the authors
> site authors.ietf.org.
>
> Provided that is what would be asked of us, then I see no inconsistency
> with RFC 8711, which is where the role of the LLC is set.
>
> cheers
> Jay
>
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Ted
> >
> >
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