[www.ietf.org/rt #32645] Move of ALTO and DECADE to Transport Area

["Cindy Morgan via RT" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Russ,

The Areas and Area Directors have been updated accordingly for ALTO and
DECADE.

Best regards,
Cindy



On Tue Nov 09 17:43:44 2010, [e-mail] wrote:
> The IESG has decided to move the ALTO and DECADE working
> groups from the Applications Area to the Transport Area.  Two 
> factors played a role in this decision.  First, the IESG feels 
> that consolidating the standardization of peer-to-peer 
> technologies in one Area will strengthen this important aspect 
> of Internet engineering.  Second, the current work in these 
> WGs has strong ties to Transport work on storage protocols, 
> congestion control and exposure, and peer-to-peer streaming. 
> Bringing these two WGs into the Transport Area will leverage 
> this expertise for the P2P work items in ALTO and DECADE.
> 
> The Secretariat has been instructed to carry out this move 
> immediately.
> 
> David Harrington will be the responsible Area Director for
> both ALTO and DECADE.  Also, Alexey Melnikov will the
> Applications Area Adviser for DECADE, and Peter Saint-Andre
> will be the Applications Area Adviser for ALTO.
> 
> On behalf of the IESG,
> Russ Housley
>