Re: AD Sponsorship of draft-moonesamy-recall-rev

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019, 21:08 S Moonesamy <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Alissa,
> At 07:46 AM 17-04-2019, Alissa Cooper wrote:
> >I discussed this with the IESG and our recommendation is for you to
> >submit a BOF proposal if you'd like to pursue this further. We think
> >these kinds of changes to the IETF's governance structure need the
> >more in-depth problem statement discussion and broader review that a
> >chartering process and working group would provide.
>
> Thank you for discussing the request with the IESG.
>
> There is currently a working group discussing the governance
> structure of the IETF.  I doubt that the draft would be in scope for
> that working group given that its charter specifically sets "the
> standards process" as outside its scope.  Is the IESG recommending an
> in-depth problem statement about the Internet Standards Process?
>

Well, an IESG did exactly that in the early 2000s, resulting in
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3774.

We have addressed a minority of the problems we identified a decade and a
half ago, but ISTM that taking a look at RFC 3774 and seeing what remains
to be fixed, and whether it's worth fixing, might be a FABulous place to
start ...

Spencer

Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
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