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> On Sep 1, 2016, at 7:04 AM, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 01/09/16 10:39, Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) wrote:
>> I thought the way we usually do this, is to have milestones with a
>> timeline and have a sentence saying: When these milestones have been
>> reached the working group will recharter or close.
> 
> Yep, that is the usual approach. The ipsecme wg however have
> not taken the usual approach for quite a while now and that's
> also ok. As Kathleen explained they've tended to have a drop
> dead date in the charter as a way to motivate folks to have made
> sufficient progress by that date. I think they've come close to
> closing for that reason a couple of times over the last few
> years.

> 
> IIRC, that was started because there was a fear of having
> loads and loads of seemingly reasonable work items, few of
> which were of enough interest to be finished in a timely manner.
> (I'm open to correction on that though.)
> 
Yes and they've also reconsidered drafts that have been accepted.  If they 
think an approach is not going to be feasible after more research, they've 
dropped the work.

> One can of course wonder if that's the best approach, but I
> think it's perfectly fine that different WGs use different ways
> of doing things like this. It's also fine that the IESG ask about
> it of course, but we (the IESG) should also be careful to not give
> the impression we're trying to shoe-horn all WGs into using the
> same management techniques. (I don't think that's what's happening,
> but one could get that impression maybe.)

I think this WG and SACM are my only two with a deadline and this one is from 
the WG themselves.

Thanks,
Kathleen 
> 
> Cheers,
> S.
> 
>> 
>> Given the planned work and the rather near-time date, I can already
>> say that they have to extend this date which in this case means a
>> full recharter and processing. While updating milestones can be done
>> by the chairs.
>> 
>> Mirja
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 01.09.2016 um 03:39 schrieb Kathleen Moriarty
>>> <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> That’s actually a good point that I forgot to mention as well.
>>>> Actually my question is, why is this limited needed at all?
>>> 
>>> The WG has had this in their charter for some time.  The previous 
>>> chairs with the WG have wanted to keep a window set since this is
>>> a maintenance WG as a way to prevent it from living on beyond it's 
>>> usefulness.  They believe that it's okay to shutdown the WG if it 
>>> dwindles and would like to have ways to determine if that is 
>>> necessary.  They are also fine with a temporary closing to then
>>> reopen as another follow on effort.  This is a follow on WG itself
>>> after the original WG responsible for IPsec had closed for a few
>>> years.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Am 31.08.2016 um 21:36 schrieb Alissa Cooper
>>>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alissa Cooper has entered the following ballot position for 
>>>>> charter-ietf-ipsecme-10-00: No Objection
>>>>> 
>>>>> When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply
>>>>> to all email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel
>>>>> free to cut this introductory paragraph, however.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found
>>>>> here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-ipsecme/
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> COMMENT:
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This seems like a lot of documents for a 16-month window based on this
>>>>> group's past publication rate. Good to be ambitious, but I'm
>>>>> just wondering how realistic this is.
>>> 
>>> Yes, it's ambitious.  I'll leave that to the chairs to respond.
>>> In the past they have tried to keep the date to a reasonable one
>>> to complete work or to close if the WG became too inactive since
>>> it's along-standing one.  It has gotten some new life recently, so
>>> I don't expect this WG to close too soon.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> Best regards, Kathleen
> 

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