[secdir] [new-work] WG Review: Security Dispatch (secdispatch)

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A new IETF WG has been proposed in the Security Area. The IESG has not made
any determination yet. The following draft charter was submitted, and is
provided for informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the
IESG mailing list (iesg@ietf.org) by 2018-03-05.

Security Dispatch (secdispatch)
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Current status: Proposed WG

Chairs:
  TBD

Assigned Area Director:
  Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>

Security Area Directors:
  Kathleen Moriarty <Kathleen.Moriarty.ietf@gmail.com>
  Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>

Mailing list:
  TBD

Group page: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/secdispatch/

Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-secdispatch/

The Security Dispatch working group is chartered to consider proposals for
new work in the SEC area an  if the work is appropriate for the IETF and
there is sufficient interest, identify, or help create, an appropriate venue
for the work. In order to help the proposed new work succeed, the working
group aims to assist the proposed new work in:

1. Providing a clear problem statement, motivation and deliverables.
2. Ensuring that there has been adequate mailing list discussion reflecting
sufficient interest, a sufficient number of individuals have expressed a
willingness to contribute, and there is WG consensus before the proposed new
work can be dispatched. 3. Looking for and identifying commonalities and
overlap amongst published or ongoing protocol work and the proposed new work.
Such commonalities may indicate the possibility of reusing existing protocols
or elements thereof published by other WGs, or expanding and/or refactoring
the scope of deliverables in an existing active WG. 4. Protecting the
architectural integrity of IETF protocols and ensuring that new work has
general applicability. 5. Ensuring that the new work considers and seeks to
improve security and privacy.

Precedence will be given to documents which have evidence of interest in the
form of active drafts and list discussion.

Options for handling new work include:
- Directing the work to an existing WG.
- Developing a proposal for a BOF.
- Developing a charter for a new WG.
- Making recommendations that documents be AD-sponsored (which ADs may or may
not choose to follow). 
- By agreement with SEC ADs, processing simple
administrative documents. 
- Deferring the decision for the new work. 
- Rejecting the new work.

The WG will attempt to come to a prompt resolution of the appropriate
disposition of each proposal during the WG meeting.

If the group decides that a particular topic needs to be addressed by a new
WG, the normal IETF chartering process will be followed, including, for
instance, IETF-wide review of the proposed charter. Proposals for large work
efforts SHOULD lead to a BOF where the topic can be discussed in front of the
entire IETF community. The SECDISPATCH WG will not do any protocol work.
Specifically, SECDISPATCH will always opt to find a location for technical
work; the only work that SECDISPATCH is not required to delegate (or defer,
or reject) is administrative work such as IANA actions. Documents progressed
as AD-sponsored would typically include those that do not have general
applicability to IETF protocols, but rather are only applicable to specific
use cases and network deployments, for which the scope must be clearly
specified.

Proposed new work may be deferred in cases where the WG does not have enough
information for the chairs to determine consensus. New work may be rejected
in cases where there is not sufficient WG interest or the proposal has been
considered and rejected in the past, unless a substantially revised proposal
is put forth, including compelling new reasons for accepting the work.

A major objective of the SECDISPATCH WG is to provide timely, clear
dispositions of new efforts. Thus, where there is consensus to take on new
work, the WG will strive to quickly find a home for it. While most new work
in the SEC area is expected to be considered in the SECDISPATCH working
group, there may be times where that is not appropriate. At the discretion of
the area directors, new efforts may follow other paths beside SECDISPATCH.
For example work may go directly to BoFs (this is appropriate in cases of
major new work which would clearly need a new WG),  may be initiated in other
working groups when it clearly belongs in that group, or may be directly AD
sponsored.

Milestones:

TBD

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