IASA2 J. Klensin, Ed.
Internet-Draft January 17, 2019
Obsoletes: 3716, 3929, 4633 (if
approved)
Updates: 2028, 2418, 3005, 3710, 6702
(if approved)
Intended status: Best Current Practice
Expires: July 21, 2019
Consolidated IASA2-Related Document Updates
draft-ietf-iasa2-consolidated-upd-04
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. Where Appropriate, Replacement of the IETF Executive Director
position with the Managing Director, IETF Secretariat . . . . 3
3. Remove the IETF Executive Director as an Option . . . . . . . 4
4. Deprecated Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Appendix A. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A.1. Changes from version -00 (2018-11-15) to -01 . . . . . . 7
A.2. Changes from version -01 (dated 2018-12-06 but
posted 2012-12-07) to -02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
A.3. Changes from version -02 (2018-12-07) to -03 . . . . . . 8
A.4. Changes from version -03 (2018-12-12) to -04 . . . . . . 8
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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, and 6702
(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 4). 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. 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].
This document applies that change to the following:
o RFC 2028, The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process
[RFC2028], Section 3.3.
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].
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3. 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.
4. 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 3716 [RFC3716], which describes the general administrative
model of the IETF.
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.
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5. 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.
6. Contributors
Jason Livingood did the hard work of identifying the documents that
required updating and supplied considerable text used in this
document.
7. IANA Considerations
[[CREF2: RFC Editor: Please remove this section before publication.]]
This memo includes no requests to or actions for IANA.
8. 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.
9. References
9.1. 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/>.
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[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>.
[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>.
[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>.
9.2. 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>.
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[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>.
[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".
[[CREF3: 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.
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o Minor editorial corrections and changes.
A.2. Changes from version -01 (dated 2018-12-06 but posted 2012-12-07)
to -02
I accidentally omitted RFC 4844 from the document header "updates"
list in Version 01 and noticed that in response to an unrelated
question almost immediately after posting. The correction seemed
important enough to justify almost immediate re-posting. Changes are
only that header, the document file name, and the date. --JcK
A.3. Changes from version -02 (2018-12-07) to -03
o Removed discussion and pointers to RFC 7500 - IAB will publish
separately.
o Added text to describe (very superficially) RFC 3716. That
document was obsoleted in the previous version but not described.
o Removed rant about titles and responsibilities from Section 2 and
a subsequent editorial note I hope it is no longer needed --JcK.
In additional, several blocks of text that were commented out in
earlier versions of the XML have been removed entirely.
A.4. Changes from version -03 (2018-12-12) to -04
o Removed RFC 4844 from the update list and discussion because the
consensus in the WG seemed to be that it (and the RFC Editor)
should be handled separately.
o Removed RFC 5377 from the update list and discussion because it
involves the Trust.
o Editor's note in draft:
The above changes and the earlier removal of RFC 7500 so the
IAB could publish it own document completely eliminate the
earlier Sections 2 and 3. That may call for a revision of the
Introduction and/or Abstract, but I have not done a review for
this iteration of whether such changes are needed.
As documents and references are shuffled in and out of this
one, it occurred to me that having a non-normative appendix
somewhere that would identify all of the documents containing
changes to reflect the IASA 1.x to 2.0 transition would be of
great help to any future historian trying to understand what we
did and probably helpful to the IETF if some of these changes
don't work out and/or require further tuning. After a brief
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discussion, Jason and I concluded that appendix did not belong
in this iteration of this document.
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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