Re: [Iotops] Martin Duke's Block on charter-ietf-iotops-00-17: (with BLOCK)

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

I don't know how this happened, but I accidentally sent the following
to Martin along, rather than to the list:

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I look at it the other way: I think we're often being too restrictive,
and that we should charter *more* working groups of this nature.  I
really don't understand the objection to it.

We've tried doing this in different ways, with things like the
Exploratory Groups experiment, but changes like that aren't well
understood and don't tend to succeed.  But just putting it into the
Working Group context with goals that are still clear but less
concrete seems workable (and is working in MOPS, for example).

Lars moved in that sort of direction for the IRTF when he chaired it,
and it worked: go do your work for a year, and if it looks right at
that point, you're official.  I think that for working groups it's
better to make the charter official and kill it after a year if it's
not working, but it amounts to something close to the same thing.
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In a resultant exchange with Martin, he noted to me the lack of
clarity on "if it looks right", and I see the point there.  Maybe we
can have a few more words about how we can evaluate the success of the
working group if it does not produce documents under charter scope
items (3) or (4)?  I could get behind that, if we don't wrap ourselves
around an axle about it.

Barry

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 1:46 PM Martin Duke via Datatracker
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> I hate to do this the second time through, but I'm happy to clear it after the
> telechat after a brief discussion makes it clear I am very wrong...
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> I recognize that this WG is more focused on discussion and sharing that more
> standards-directed ones, but I'm a bit uncomfortable with the open-endedness of
> the charter. While there are bounds on the scope, there are no real success
> criteria that we can use to evaluate this WG after a certain period of time.
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> Would it be worthwhile to BoF this first to set some basic milestones for this
> WG? Do we already have these milestones in someone's head, that we can write
> down?
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>  I definitely support formation of a WG with this theme, with a little
>  tightening as described above.
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