Re: [ietf-outcomes] [OPS-AREA] IETF Outcomes wiki

[Dave CROCKER <[e-mail]>]

On 2/10/2010 2:45 AM, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote:
> 'The wiki is only as complete and accurate as community effort makes it.'
>
> It would probably be good to add a phrase that makes clear that the
> information contained here does not represent the consensus of the IETF.


I'll offer a friendly amendment, in the hopes of achieving some... ummm... 
consensus...


Outcomes home page
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Currently:
> The IETF has operated in its current form since 1989. Some of its standards
> have succeeded on a very large and visible scale. Others are successful, but
> visible only to a more limited community. Others have fared poorly. This
> wiki lists technologies and services that were developed in the IETF and
> represent notable successes or failures. It is a collaborative effort of
> IETF participants, to provide feedback to the community about the utility of
> IETF efforts, as well as to facilitate public understanding of IETF work and
> impact.


Proposed revision:

The IETF has operated in its current form since 1989. Some of its standards have
succeeded on a very large and visible scale. Others are successful, but visible
only to a more limited community. Others have fared poorly. This wiki lists
technologies and services that were developed in the IETF and represent notable
successes or failures. It is an informal, collaborative effort of IETF
participants, to provide feedback to the community about the utility of IETF
efforts, as well as to facilitate public understanding of IETF work and impact.
The contents of the are revised according to the views of individual
contributors and have not been subject to IETF Rough Consensus assessment.



Charter page
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Currently:

> The IETF produces technical specifications, with the goal of their being used
> on the Internet. Once a specification is published, there is no formal
> mechanism for assessing the eventual utility of the work. However feedback
> about successes or problems can be useful in developing a shared community
> sense of the way work is -- or should be -- done. The IETF Outcomes Wiki is a
> collaborative effort to produce subjective assessments about successes and
> failures of notable efforts, based on rough consensus.


Proposed revision:

The IETF produces technical specifications, with the goal of their being used on 
the Internet. Once a specification is published, there is no formal mechanism 
for assessing the eventual utility of the work. However feedback about successes 
or problems can be useful in developing a shared community sense of the way work 
is -- or should be -- done. The IETF Outcomes Wiki is
an informal, collaborative, incremental effort among individual IETF 
participants, to produce subjective assessments about successes and failures of 
notable efforts.  Although tending to reflect a degree of community agreement, 
the contents of the wiki are not subject to formal IETF Rough Consensus assessment.

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net