Re: The IETF environment

[Miles Fidelman <[e-mail]>]

S Moonesamy wrote:
> 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".

Well, that's kind of implied :-)

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