Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA)
RFC 4071
Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(April 2005; No errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 8711
Was draft-ietf-iasa-bcp (individual in gen area)
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Authors | Bert Wijnen , Rob Austein | ||
Last updated | 2013-03-02 | ||
Stream | Internent Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized (tools) htmlized bibtex | ||
Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 4071 (Best Current Practice) | |
Action Holders |
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Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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Responsible AD | Brian Carpenter | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Network Working Group R. Austein, Ed. Request for Comments: 4071 ISC BCP: 101 B. Wijnen, Ed. Category: Best Current Practice Lucent Technologies April 2005 Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005). Abstract This document describes the structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) as an activity housed within the Internet Society (ISOC). It defines the roles and responsibilities of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC), the IETF Administrative Director (IAD), and ISOC in the fiscal and administrative support of the IETF standards process. It also defines the membership and selection rules for the IAOC. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Definitions and Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1. Alphabet Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2. Principles of the IASA, IETF, and ISOC Relationship . . 4 2.3. Community Consensus and Grant of Authority . . . . . . . 5 2.4. Termination and Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.5. Effective Date for Commencement of IASA . . . . . . . . 5 3. Structure of the IASA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. IAD Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2. IAOC Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3. Relationship of the IAOC to Existing IETF Leadership . . 10 3.4. IAOC Decision Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.5. Review and Appeal of IAD and IAOC Decision . . . . . . . 10 4. IAOC Membership, Selection and Accountability . . . . . . . . 11 4.1. Initial IAOC Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Austein & Wijnen Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 4071 Structure of IASA April 2005 5. IASA Funding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5.1. Cost Center Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5.2. IETF Meeting Revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 5.3. Designated Donations, Monetary and In-Kind . . . . . . . 14 5.4. Other ISOC Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.5. IASA Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.6. Operating Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 6. IASA Budget Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7. ISOC Responsibilities for IASA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 10. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1. Introduction This document describes the structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) as an activity housed within the Internet Society (ISOC). It defines the roles and responsibilities of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC), the IETF Administrative Director (IAD), and ISOC in the fiscal and administrative support of the IETF standards process. It also defines the membership and selection rules for the IAOC. The IETF undertakes its technical activities as an ongoing, open, consensus-based process. This document defines an administrative support structure intended to be responsive to the administrative needs of the IETF technical community, and it describes how that support structure fits under ISOC's organizational umbrella. This document does not affect the ISOC-IETF working relationship as it relates to standards development or the communication of technical advice relevant to the policy and educational goals of ISOC. The IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) provides the administrative structure required to support the IETF standards process and to support the IETF's technical activities. As of the time at which this document was written, this included the work of IETF working groups, the IESG, the IAB, and the IRTF. Should the IETF standards process at some future date come to include other technical activities, the IAOC is responsible for developing plans toShow full document text