Re: [Internetgovtech] Cross community

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Fri, 25 July 2014 07:52 UTC

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Hi John,
At 13:52 24-07-2014, John Curran wrote:
>A single misstep is unlikely to cause folks to go to another venue for
>their Internet standards development; it would probably take a pattern of
>decisions which impact others without reasonable opportunity for input to
>cause such an outcome.  This is very unlikely given the open nature of
>IETF standards development, but does highlight the need for the various
>organizations (IETF, ICANN, RIRs) to keep each other apprised of any policy
>or standards development that may be of cross interest.  This has worked
>very well between the RIRs and the IETF, okay with the RIRs and ICANN from
>what I can tell (and I do not know how well the IETF/ICANN communication
>in this area has worked.)

I'll say ok to the above as I do not do the coordination.

>And such folks are free to write Internet Drafts which describe the problem
>(as they see it) with a given protocol or registry requirement, and 
>participate
>in the IETF process to get things changed to something more 
>pleasing.  If their
>arguments have merit, they are likely to be picked up and advanced by others
>via the process, and if not, then the asserted misstep is actually a 
>non-issue.

A generally accepted theory or belief was that nothing could be done 
about 2050 as the previous attempts to update the document resulted 
in failure.  I don't think that the move happened based on the merit 
of the arguments.  There is a thread on ietf@ about something more 
pleasing.  Some things are unsurprising.

>In any case, this is all handled via the existing IETF processes for 
>standards
>and registry policy development; there is no evidence of any need for new or
>additional accountability mechanisms for these IETF processes, 
>particularly to
>the extent that the IETF work predominantly covers technical matters 
>rather than
>"public policy" issues.  That aligns well with the IANA Stewardship 
>transition
>proposal development effort, which is not scoped to include accountability
>mechanisms for "how relevant policies are created, nor the relevant 
>structures
>in which they are created."

I have followed the non-IETF discussions about the word 
"accountability".  In some ways it is about a clash of cultures and 
other considerations.  The IETF can end up as collateral damage in all that.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy