IASA2 J. Klensin, Ed.
Internet-Draft December 6, 2018
Obsoletes: 3716, 3929, 4633 (if
approved)
Updates: 2028, 2418, 3005, 3710, 5377,
6702, 7500 (if approved)
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Consolidated IASA2-Related Document Updates
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Abstract
In 2018, the IETF began the transition to a new administrative
structure and updated its IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA)
to a new "IASA 2.0" structure. In addition to more substantive
changes that are described in other documents, the transition to the
2018 IETF Administrative Support structure changes several position
titles and organizational relationships that are referenced
elsewhere. Rather than reissue those referencing documents
individually, this specification provides updates to them and
deprecates some now-obsolete documents to ensure that there is no
confusion due to these changes.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Remove Text About the Connection Between the IAOC and IETF
Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Replacement of IAOC with IETF Administration LLC . . . . . . 3
4. Where Appropriate, Replacement of the IETF Executive Director
position with the Managing Director, IETF Secretariat . . . . 4
5. Remove the IETF Executive Director as an Option . . . . . . . 5
6. Deprecated Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Appendix A. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
A.1. Changes from version -00 (2018-11-15) to -01 . . . . . . 9
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1. Introduction
In 2018, the IETF began the transition to a new administrative
structure, and updated its IETF Administrative Support Activity
(IASA) to a new "IASA 2.0" structure [RFC-Struct]. Key IASA 2.0
changes have been specified in a series of documents, including
changes to the IETF Trust [RFC-trust-update], the rationale for it
[RFC-trust-rationale], a new defining document for the IETF
Administration LLC [LLC-Agreement] (informally called the "IETF LLC"
or just "the LLC" in places in this document and elsewhere) and
adjustments to the procedures for nominations and selections for
relevant positions [RFC-7437bis].
In addition to more substantive changes that are described in those
and other documents, the IASA 2.0 structure changes several position
titles and organizational relationships that are referenced in other
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documents. Rather than reissue those documents individually, this
document provides a unified update to them.
This document updates RFCs 2028, 2418, 3005, 3710, 5377, 6702, and
7500 (citations in context below) to make those terminology and
related changes. For clarity, it also obsoletes RFCs 3716 and 3929
which were Experimental or Informational documents that are no longer
relevant (see Section 6). The sections that follow identify the
details of the relevant documents and the required changes.
[[CREF1: Note in Draft: This document lists changes that the WG may
choose to process as standalone replacement documents instead. The
relevant sections are provided to speed things along should it decide
to not do that.]]
2. Remove Text About the Connection Between the IAOC and IETF Trust
Some documents that discuss the IETF Trust or its relationship to the
community describe it, or the Trustees, in relation to the IAOC.
That connection must be eliminated to reflect the new IASA 2.0
structure.
This document applies that change to the following:
o RFC 5377 [RFC5377], Advice to the Trustees of the IETF Trust on
Rights to Be Granted in IETF Documents. These changes require
dropping "made up of the members of the IAOC [RFC4371]" after
"board of trustees" in the first paragraph of Section 1 and "which
is made up of the members of the IAOC, as described in [RFC4071]
and [RFC4371]" in the first paragraph of Section 3.
[[CREF2: RFC Editor please note that the bracketed strings above
are quoted text, not references. ]]
3. Replacement of IAOC with IETF Administration LLC
All mentions of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC)
that are not removed by the prior section, shall be updated and
replaced by the IETF Administration LLC (IETF-LLC). This is
necessary because the IAOC is phased out under the IASA 2.0
structure.
This document applies that change to the following:
o RFC 4844 [RFC4844], the RFC Series and RFC Editor Sections 3.3,
3.4, and 4.
o RFC 7500 [RFC7500] Principles for Operation of Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA) Registries, Section 3.4. This means that
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the IETF LLC, the body responsible for IETF administrative and
financial matters, maintains an SLA with the current registry
operator, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN). It also means that both the Internet Architecture Board
(IAB) and the IETF LLC are accountable to the larger Internet
community for the IANA registries.
4. Where Appropriate, Replacement of the IETF Executive Director
position with the Managing Director, IETF Secretariat
Under the IASA 2.0 structure, most of the responsibilities of the
former position of IETF Executive Director been assigned to a new
position (or at least title) of Managing Director of the IETF
Secretariat. An "Executive Director" title is now associated with
different, and largely new, responsibilities as an Officer of the
IETF Administration LLC. These changes are described in the
description of the new structural arrangements [RFC-Struct].
[[CREF3: Editorial comment/rant (JcK 20181114): Or at least they had
better be clearly described there because, if they are not, this
document is the wrong place to try to fix it. I've done the best I
could to combine my view of what this should say (which does not
necessarily align with WG discussions) and Jason's (which presumably
does, but had another issue or two). Basically, from the standpoint
of a clear understanding of the new roles and titles, taking the old
roles of "IETF Executive Director" and "IETF Administrative Director"
and renaming the Secretariat management part of the former role to
"Managing Director, IETF Secretariat" would have been a little
confusing because the old "IETF Executive Director" position had
functions that were not inherently limited to the Secretariat
function as the IETF has understood it. But then taking some of the
IAD functions and calling them "Executive Director" (without "IETF",
but the term with "IETF" is still present in older documents that the
WG has concluded it doesn't need to update and in some more recent
sloppy usage) while distributing other IAD functions to the
Secretariat is a recipe for complete confusion... and I've seen
messages in which several people who have been active in the WG
appear to be confused. I accept Alissa's judgment that it is too
late to change this, or at least the association of the "Executive
Director" title with that LLC function, but suggest we need to be
_very_ careful -- much more careful than we have apparently been so
far -- about good-quality explanations and absolute consistency about
terminology. ]]
This document applies that change to the following:
o RFC 2028, The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process
[RFC2028], Section 3.3.
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[[CREF4: Editorial note (JcK 20181115) Jason suggested somewhat
different text, specifically "This means that the administrative
functions necessary to support the activities of the IETF are
performed by a Secretariat, led by the Managing Director, IETF
Secretariat, and consisting of his or her staff in the IETF
Secretariat." I don't think "This" (the change) means any such
thing because 2028 fairly clearly establishes the administrative
function role of the Secretariat and its staff. All this change
does is what is described in the first paragraph of this section,
i.e., switch titles, so the additional attempted explanation is
unnecessary and likely to be confusing. A similar change was
proposed for the description of the RFC 2418 change below. The WG
should decide what it wants.]]
o RFC 2418, IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures [RFC2418]
o RFC 3710, An IESG Charter, Section 2[RFC3710].
o RFC 6702, Promoting Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights
(IPR) Disclosure Rules, Section 5 [RFC6702].
Note that the current description of the Internet Standards Process
[RFC2026] does not require an update by this document for this
purpose because the reference to the IETF Executive Director in RFC
2026 was replaced by a document that precedes the current effort
[RFC3979] and that was, in turn, obsoleted by RFC 8179 [RFC8179].
[[CREF5: Note in Draft: Bob Hinden's note of November 10, 2018 11:37
+0900 indicates that RFC4844 should continue to reference the IETF
Executive Director.]]
5. Remove the IETF Executive Director as an Option
In a few cases, it is no longer appropriate for either the Managing
Director, IETF Secretariat (former IETF Executive Director position)
or the new IETF Executive Director (for the LLC) to perform a
particular historical function. The relevant documents are updated
to remove the IETF Executive Director from the list of people with
specific responsibilities or authority. Those documents will not be
updated to use "Managing Director, IETF Secretariat" but, instead,
the mention of the position will simply be dropped.
This document applies that change to the following:
o RFC 3005, IETF Discussion List Charter [RFC3005], section titled
"Charter for the IETF Discussion List". This document is modified
to remove the authorization for the IETF Executive Director to
restrict people from posting, etc.
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6. Deprecated Documents
The IASA2 Working Group has also identified several RFCs that no
longer apply as a result of the change to the new IASA 2.0 structure.
The result is that several informational, experimental, or other RFCs
can be deprecated.
This document deprecates the following:
o RFC 3929 [RFC3929], which touches on aspects of the administration
of the IETF, such as mentioning the IETF Executive Director. It
dates to 2004 and is experimental.
o RFC 3979 [RFC3979], that is updated by [RFC8179], which corrects
mentions of the IETF Executive Director to the IETF Secretariat.
o RFC 4633 [RFC4633], which is an experimental document that refers
to IETF Executive Director. It describes a 2006 experiment that
ran for 18 months.
o RFC 4879 [RFC4879], that is updated by [RFC8179], which corrects
mentions of the IETF Executive Director to the IETF Secretariat.
It is also recommended that the above documents be reclassified to
Historic to further reduce the risk of any confusion.
7. Acknowledgments
Brian Carpenter's careful checking and identification of documents
that did, and did not, require consideration was essential to the
draft in its current form.
8. Contributors
Jason Livingood did the hard work of identifying the documents that
required updating and supplied considerable text used in this
document.
9. IANA Considerations
[[CREF6: RFC Editor: Please remove this section before publication.]]
This memo includes no requests to or actions for IANA.
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10. Security Considerations
The changes specified in this document are matters of terminology and
organizational structure derived from documents it references. It
should have no effect on Internet security.
11. References
11.1. Normative References
[LLC-Agreement]
IETF Administration LLC, "Limited Liability Company
Agreement of IETF Administration LLC", August 2018,
<https://www.ietf.org/documents/180/
IETF-LLC-Agreement.pdf>.
[RFC-7437bis]
Kucherawy, M., Ed., Hinden, R., Ed., and J. Livingood,
Ed., "IAB, IESG, and IETF LLC Selection, Confirmation, and
Recall Process: Operation of the IETF Nominating and
Recall Committees", 2018,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/
draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc7437bis/>.
[RFC-Struct]
Haberman, B., Hall, J., and J. Livingood, "Structure of
the IETF Administrative Support Activity, Version 2.0",
December 2018, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/
draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc4071bis/>.
[RFC-trust-rationale]
Arkko, J., "Discussion of the IASA 2.0 Changes as They
Relate to the IETF Trust", 2018,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/
draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-rationale/>.
[RFC-trust-update]
Arkko, J. and T. Hardie, "Update to the Process for
Selection of Trustees for the IETF Trust", 2018,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/
draft-ietf-iasa2-trust-update/>.
[RFC2028] Hovey, R. and S. Bradner, "The Organizations Involved in
the IETF Standards Process", BCP 11, RFC 2028,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2028, October 1996,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2028>.
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[RFC2418] Bradner, S., "IETF Working Group Guidelines and
Procedures", BCP 25, RFC 2418, DOI 10.17487/RFC2418,
September 1998, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2418>.
[RFC3005] Harris, S., "IETF Discussion List Charter", BCP 45,
RFC 3005, DOI 10.17487/RFC3005, November 2000,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3005>.
[RFC3710] Alvestrand, H., "An IESG charter", RFC 3710,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3710, February 2004,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3710>.
[RFC4844] Daigle, L., Ed. and Internet Architecture Board, "The RFC
Series and RFC Editor", RFC 4844, DOI 10.17487/RFC4844,
July 2007, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4844>.
[RFC5377] Halpern, J., Ed., "Advice to the Trustees of the IETF
Trust on Rights to Be Granted in IETF Documents",
RFC 5377, DOI 10.17487/RFC5377, November 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5377>.
[RFC6702] Polk, T. and P. Saint-Andre, "Promoting Compliance with
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Disclosure Rules",
RFC 6702, DOI 10.17487/RFC6702, August 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6702>.
[RFC7500] Housley, R., Ed. and O. Kolkman, Ed., "Principles for
Operation of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
Registries", RFC 7500, DOI 10.17487/RFC7500, April 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7500>.
11.2. Informative References
[RFC2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision
3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, DOI 10.17487/RFC2026, October 1996,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2026>.
[RFC3716] IAB Advisory Committee, "The IETF in the Large:
Administration and Execution", RFC 3716,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3716, March 2004,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3716>.
[RFC3929] Hardie, T., "Alternative Decision Making Processes for
Consensus-Blocked Decisions in the IETF", RFC 3929,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3929, October 2004,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3929>.
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[RFC3979] Bradner, S., Ed., "Intellectual Property Rights in IETF
Technology", RFC 3979, DOI 10.17487/RFC3979, March 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3979>.
[RFC4633] Hartman, S., "Experiment in Long-Term Suspensions From
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Mailing Lists",
RFC 4633, DOI 10.17487/RFC4633, August 2006,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4633>.
[RFC4879] Narten, T., "Clarification of the Third Party Disclosure
Procedure in RFC 3979", RFC 4879, DOI 10.17487/RFC4879,
April 2007, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4879>.
[RFC8179] Bradner, S. and J. Contreras, "Intellectual Property
Rights in IETF Technology", BCP 79, RFC 8179,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8179, May 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8179>.
Appendix A. Change Log
RFC Editor: Please remove this appendix before publication.
A.1. Changes from version -00 (2018-11-15) to -01
o Removed RFCs 3979 and 4879 from the "obsoletes" list because they
had already been obsoleted (by 8179). It also removes RFC 8179
from the "updates" list because 8179 uses "IETF Secretariat"
terminology rather than "IETF Executive Director".
[[CREF7: Note in Draft: That suggests an idea which might
considerably mitigate the name confusion issue: Instead of
singling out the Managing Director of the Secretariat as a named
individual, perhaps we should be referring to the Secretariat
itself, leaving the contact point or address up to them as an
internal administrative matter. Just a thought. --JcK]]
o Added text to explain why RFC 2026 is not on the hit list.
o Added an acknowledgment to Brian Carpenter. If he catches another
batch of errors and supplies text, he gets promoted to
Contributor.
o Adjusted reference [RFC-Struct] to point to 4071bis.
o Minor editorial corrections and changes.
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Author's Address
John C Klensin (editor)
1770 Massachusetts Ave, Ste 322
Cambridge, MA 02140
USA
Phone: +1 617 245 1457
Email: john-ietf@jck.com
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