Re: [httpapi] Martin Duke's Block on charter-ietf-httpapi-00-00: (with BLOCK)

[Martin Duke <[e-mail]>]

That seems like a well-thought-out reason. Carry on.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:28 AM Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> >> What do the two of you think about a provision to review the charter
> >> and WG progress annually, at each year's 3rd IETF meeting?
> >
> > If that's in there, I would remove my BLOCK.
>
> Thanks, Martin.
>
> > However, I wonder why we wouldn't just hold a WG forming BOF to figure
> out what
> > they're going to do, rather than form the WG and then figure out the
> initial objectives.
> > The latter has the same first meeting while also having less
> organizational overhead.
>
> Part of the point of this working group is to involve a community that
> we know is there and has work to do, but that wouldn't normally go to
> an IETF BoF.  It's not that there isn't work to do, nor that there
> aren't people prepared to do it, but that the process of getting work
> started in the IETF doesn't rope in that community.  We could try
> pushing them into that process for a BoF for this working group... or
> we can do a slight adaptation for them.  I think the latter is the
> better approach, and I think we'll need to look, moving into the
> future, at how to continue adapting in order to include different
> communities better.
>
> And I do think a "let's check and make sure this is working" thing is
> a good idea, so thanks, Martin and Alissa, for pushing on that.
>
> Barry
>