Re: The IETF environment

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

Hi Miles,
At 08:27 28-04-2014, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>I think it's more accurate to say that the IETF has an "official 
>role" as the standards body for Internet protocols - and there may 
>be a mismatch between:

I was looking at the matter from an appeals perspective.  I think 
that it might be more effective than discussing about "official role".

>- how that role is "officially defined" (such that it is)
>
>- what responsibilities go with such a role (based on expectations 
>and experience with analogous environments and standards bodies that 
>have a longer history - such as IEEE, ANSI, ISO, ITU, ...)

I'll leave the above questions to people with expertise about these topics.

>- how IETF understands and executes its role (and given the somewhat 
>bottom-up, ad hoc nature of IETF - how it's organization, policies, 
>and operating procedures map onto exercising "official" roles and 
>responsibilities"

That's an IETF governance question. :-)

>- what holes there are that might need to be plugged, and how they 
>might be plugged

The missing question in the above is "who is going to do the work".

Regards,
S. Moonesamy