Re: [Iasa20] Call for volunteers: IASA 2.0 design team

[Ted Hardie <[e-mail]>]

Howdy,

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Alissa Cooper <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Ted,
>
> Good questions. For a topic like this, I believe it’s premature to charter
> a working group. The problem list is well defined, but the space of
> considerations and solutions related to solving those problems is both very
> wide and potentially includes a number of topics that are outside the scope
> of your typical IETF working group (e.g., budget, personnel, legal issues).
> I’d like the design team to spend some time taking all of this under
> consideration as a means to help structure the next step of the community
> discussion around a focused approach/solution set.
>
> Ah, I see that I thoroughly misunderstood where you were; looking at the
community discussion you mentioned in IETF 99, I thought you meant
"community discussion to select among alternatives", when you said that the
design team would recommend solutions and the community would discuss next
steps.  I see now that this is a set of recommendations for how to proceed
from there.



> That next step might be writing a WG charter. Or it might be more plenary
> community discussion, or processing a document or two as AD-sponsored, or
> following some other process. My understanding is that IASA itself was
> created without a WG being formed, so while in my head it seems like a WG
> might be useful here down the line, I don’t want to presume at this point
> that that is the only option.
>

> Also, I’m a big fan of tightly focused WG charters, and I think we need
> this interim step if we do want to be able to write one, including being
> able to define precisely what the work of a potential WG would be covering
> and what its deliverables would be.
>
> The use of a design team was included in Jari’s original project plan, and
> I agree with him that it’s a useful tool. https://www.ietf.org/blo
> g/2016/11/proposed-project-ietf-administrative-support-2-0/
>

My mistake here was thinking you were at the design team mentioned in stage
4, not the one mentioned in stage 2; my apologies for the confusion.  I
note that his timeline also presumes that there is a working group set up
in stage 2, but I agree with you that some recommendations from a design
team might not require one ("do nothing" is a mighty short charter).

Thanks for the quick clarification,

Ted