> Maybe future versions of > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-ieee-802-rel-01.txt should > make amend the current text.
Since the IETF has no notion of membership, either within WGs or the IETF at large, attempts to determine the "legitimacy" of WG members is resting on thin ice. The IETF/IEEE 802 relationship document deliberately make it clear that access is to be provided to anyone in order to establish this as a fundamental principle of the IETF/IEEE 802 relationship. I think that principle is worth fighting for. How is a WG chair to know whether someone is a "legitimate pariticipant" or not? The IETF does not require meeting attendance. An individual can submit comments on an IETF document without even being a member of the WG or IETF mailing lists (I do this all the time). I'd note that some of the same issues have come up in IEEE 802. The Chair of IEEE 802.1 (Tony Jeffree) has stated that since IEEE 802 WGs are required to accept ballot comments from anyone regardless of voting status or IEEE membership, he considers anyone with an interest in IEEE 802.1 documents to be eligible for document access. Overall, there's an important principle at stake here. The IETF requires that documents under discussion be publicly available. To enable open review of IEEE 802 work in progress, we've made it clear to IEEE 802 that IETF WG chairs will provide archive access to anyone who asks. We've written this into the IETF/IEEE 802 relationship document , and asked for IEEE 802 ExComm review, in order to make sure that this important IETF principle is accepted by IEEE 802. _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
