[Rfced-future] RFC Editor liaison to the IAB? [was: Re: Comment on draft-iab-rfcefdp-rfced-model-12]

[Mirja Kuehlewind <[e-mail]>]

This is indeed a good question. Thanks Rob for bring this up!

I actually think there are two options here: either the IAB could have a liaison from the RPC or, if the RPC thinks this is not needed, we probably just don’t need a liaison in the new model. This seems like the only two option to me, given we definitely don’t need a liaison from the RSAB as the IAB is sending one of the representatives and I don’t think it practically makes sense to have liaison from the RSWG. Or maybe having the RSCE as a liaison to the IAB could be another option but I don’t think that would be of real interest for the new RSCE role…?

It seems like this is actually something we might also want to update as well in draft-carpenter-rfced-iab-charter. Brian? Lars?



> On 10. Mar 2022, at 21:13, Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On 3/10/22 3:41 AM, Rob Wilton (rwilton) wrote:
>> Changing the title to help ensure that this comment is tracked against draft-iab-rfcefdp-rfced-model.
>> Still suffering from Covid, and I'm now way behind on email, so perhaps this has already been resolved, but I think that the issue below needs to be resolved before the document is published.
>> Regards,
>> Rob
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>
>> Sent: 07 March 2022 19:40
>> To: Rob Wilton (rwilton) <[e-mail]>; The IESG <[e-mail]>
>> Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
>> Subject: Re: Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-carpenter-rfced-iab-charter-06: (with COMMENT)
>> Rob,
>> On 07-Mar-22 23:58, Robert Wilton via Datatracker wrote:
>> ...
>>   
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>>     Note that RFC 2850 states that the RFC Editor appoints a liaison
>>>     member to the IAB.  This does not change, but refers to the RFC
>>>     Editor function as described in [I-D.iab-rfcefdp-rfced-model].
>>> 
>>> It isn't entirely clear to me exactly who (as in which person or body) is
>>> actually responsible for appointing a liaison member to the IAB (given, as per
>>> draft-iab-rfcefdp-rfced-model, the RFC editor function responsibilities are
>>> split up into multiple entities).  My assumption is that this would be RSAB,
>>> but perhaps I mistaken.  Would it be helpful to clarify this - perhaps in
>>> draft-iab-rfcefdp-rfced-model?
>> Indeed, I don't think it belongs in the IAB charter. Hence I suggest that this
>> is really a comment that the IAB Program (in Cc:) should look at.
> 
> This is a good question.
> 
> One key assumption underlying version 3 of the RFC Editor Model is that the process for policy definition and implementation is no longer under the purview of the IAB. Therefore, I question whether the IAB still needs a liaison from the RFC Editor Function (whose responsibilities are now spread across multiple entities) and I would defer to the IAB (cc'd) on whether they think this is needed. (If so, we'll need to figure out who does the appointing, but one step at a time.)
> 
> Peter
> 
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