Re: [sasl] Kitten Recharter

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <[e-mail]>]

--On Friday, June 11, 2010 06:40:29 PM +0100 Alexey Melnikov 
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>> * Shepard draft-melnikov-digest-to-historic through standards track.
>>
> typo: shephard

shepherd, with an 'e', please


>> This WG should review proposals for new SASL and GSS-API mechanisms.
>> The WG should also review non-mechanism proposals related to SASL and
>> the GSS-API.
>>
> I think this is a bit too open-ended for IESG. I would have asked about
> that if I were asked to review such charter ;-).
>
> To be frank, I would delete these 2 sentences, or say the exactly
> opposite: other proposals would require rechartering. However chairs
> always have some flexibility in allowing conversations on related topics,
> as long as this doesn't compromise progress on major deliverables.

Not at all.  The intent here is not that the WG have an open-ended mandate 
to take on any and all mechanism work.  However, we want to be clear that 
this is the place to take any such proposals, and that it is in scope for 
the WG to discuss and review them, and to consider whether it wants to work 
on them (in which case a charter revision would be needed).

-- Jeff