> -----Original Message----- > From: regext <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Patrick Mevzek > Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2018 1:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [regext] Proposed Revision to our Charter > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, at 15:51, James Galvin wrote: > > As we have discussed in at least the last two IETF meetings, we would > > like to propose broadening the responsibility of this working group to > > cover the standards related generally to Internet Identifier systems. > > I am sorry not to have been able to participate in the last two meetings, > but I also find no discussion on the mailing-list about this, so can you > provide more context? > > Specifically because regarding the minutes of IETF 101 and 100 I see > nothing about this in 101 and in 100 only: > "Discussion about broadening the charter to adopt other "registration- > related" documents, once the document "plate" is clean. > Before london, several documents should be off our WG, and we can adopt > more documents." > > from one individual. > > I feel missing quite a lot of pieces of the puzzle. > > New work may be interesting, but one has to question first if this is > really related to what we are already doing (what is the overlap?) and > then if the group has enough resources to tackle more work when: > - we are late in our milestones, and not by little (almost one year for > the fee extension, more than 6 months for the organization one, etc.0 > - it is difficult to find shepherds for write-ups (I can testify :-)) > - there are not so many individuals commenting/reviewing each draft on the > list, so consensus is already quite hard to achieve. > > > Attached you will find a proposed revision to our charter that would > > allow this. > > > > Please review and provide any comments or concerns to the mailing list. > > My concern is that there is only a short sentence added to the current > charter that does not give a lot of details about what we are speaking > about here, especially since EPP and RDAP are detailed before in many > sentences. > > So, in short, I am uneasy to say anything because I lack both context and > substance about what we are talking about. > Some examples of relevant work could also be useful.
I tend to agree. This WG hasn't exactly been a paragon of broad engagement, so I'm a little concerned about expanding our scope into unidentified identifier registries without a better understanding of what that means. Scott _______________________________________________ regext mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/regext
