Process for Organization of Internet Standards ONgoing (poisson) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 10/26/2001 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): James Galvin John Klensin General Area Director(s): Harald Alvestrand General Area Advisor: Harald Alvestrand Mailing Lists: General Discussion:poised@lists.tislabs.com To Subscribe: poised-request@lists.tislabs.com Archive: ftp://ftp.tis.com/pub/lists/poised/poised.yymm Description of Working Group: The POISED working group in 1993-1994 established the basis of the IETF process in its current form. Poised95 established a base set of documents to describe the essentials of the IETF process. POISSON is concerned with documenting issues relevant to the IETF process. The name POISSON: The tricky part of describing the IETF process, certainly in the fast changing world of the Internet, is that when you describe the process in too much detail, the IETF loses its flexibility, when you describe to little it becomes unmanageable. This is therefore a slippery subject, hence the name POISSON, which is French for fish. The French word also serves to indicate the international aspect of the WG. Furthermore the IETF operates by consensus, which sometimes seems to have a POISSON distribution. The POISSON WG will work on the following items in 1999: - Review of copyright issues as described in RFC2026, that describes the Internet standards proces. - Drafting of an agreement for registration and assignment of protocol parameters as performed by the IANA. The WG will focus on the operational and technical aspects of the contract. The IETF lawyer will be asked to add the necessary legal phrases. - Discuss the relationship between IETF and ICANN. Should the IETF be participating in ICANN at all? If so, as part of the ICANN PSO? Under which conditions? An RFC detailing the position will be published if the WG decides that the IETF should not be part of the ICANN PSO. RFC on proposed ICANN PSO bylaws will be produced if the WG consensus is in favor of joining the PSO. Furthermore, in the latter case an RFC will be produced that describes how ICANN PSO officers (on behalf of the IETF) are to be selected. - Discuss an update of the Nominations Committee document RFC-2282, if and when the current NomCom has suggestions for changes. Furthermore, the POISSON WG will review documents that are related to the IETF standards process (but that will not be produced by the POISSON WG itself) when available. Such documents may include: - IETF Charter; This needs to be written by the IETF chair. It is essentially a short mission statement like document that contains references to other Poised documents for further details. - IESG Charter; This document will be written by the IESG. - IAB Charter; The IAB needs to revise its charter (RFC1601). - Proposals related to standards publishing. Last but not least, Poisson will serve as a generic platform where the IAB and IESG can discuss policy questions if there is the need for consensus polling. Goals and Milestones: Done Submit Internet-Draft of second version of proposed IANA contract Done Second version of drafts for ICANN PSO bylaws and IETF PSO officer selection, or first draft describing why IETF should not be involved with ICANN Done Present ICANN related issues at IETF plenary Done Submit final version of all drafts Done Submit Internet-Drafts to IESG for publication as RFCs. Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: RFC Stat Published Title ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC2282BCP FEB 98 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees RFC2418BCP SEP 98 IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures RFC2691 I SEP 99 A Memorandum of Understanding for an ICANN Protocol Support Organization RFC2690 I SEP 99 A Proposal for an MOU-Based ICANN Protocol Support Organization RFC2777 I FEB 00 Publicly Verifiable Random Selection RFC2727BCP FEB 00 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall RFC3005BCP NOV 00 IETF Discussion List Charter RFC3184BCP OCT 01 IETF Guidelines for Conduct