Re: [Ietf-and-github] Rules regarding ownership of orgs

["Rob Wilton (rwilton)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Martin,

My concern goes two ways:

1) If the owner is a single AD and that AD becomes unavailable then that could cause problems.  Hence why I think the approach of having all area directors in the working group area as owners is better than just the responsible AD.

2) Adding the Secretariat as the owner to all repos puts more power and risk in the hands of a single account.  Hence why I propose that we don't add the Secretariat as an owner by default.

Thanks,
Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ietf-and-github <[e-mail]> On Behalf Of
> Martin Thomson
> Sent: 16 March 2020 04:03
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: [Ietf-and-github] Rules regarding ownership of orgs
> 
> In discussion with Rob Wilton, the question about recommendations for
> organization ownership was raised.
> 
> The using-github draft says:
> 
> > The owners for a Working Group repository MUST include responsible Area
> Directors.
> 
> The -configuration drafts says:
> 
> > Initialize the organization by designating the IETF Secretariat and the
> area directors in the working group's area as owners. If the responsible
> AD for the working group is from another area, that AD will be an owner as
> well.
> 
> On face value, this is different, but it is at least consistent.  The
> strictures in the policy are narrower in terms of requirements than the
> concrete implementation of that policy.
> 
> I'm reading Rob's concern to be primarily about redundancy.  An AD who
> becomes unreachable might render the organization inaccessible or
> unusable.  Do you think that we should recommend or require inclusion of
> more people in the using-github draft to match the configuration draft?
> 
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