IAB Business Meeting: 2023-11-09

1. Administrivia 

1.1. Attendance 

Present:

- Roman Danyliw (IESG Liaison)
- Dhruv Dhody
- Wes Hardaker 
- Cullen Jennings
- Mallory Knodel 
- Suresh Krishnan 
- Mirja Kühlewind (IAB Chair)
- Cindy Morgan (IAB Executive Administrative Manager)
- Tommy Pauly 
- Colin Perkins (IRTF Chair)
- Alvaro Retana 
- David Schinazi
- Sally Wentworth (ISOC Liaison)
- Christopher Wood 
- Greg Wood
- Qin Wu 
- Jiankang Yao 

Regrets:

- Lars Eggert (IETF Chair)


2. Joint statement of scientists and NGOs on the EU’s proposed eIDAS 
   reform 

  Via an e-vote, the IAB agreed to sign the Joint statement of 
  scientists and NGOs on the EU’s proposed eIDAS reform. Mirja 
  Kühlewind to submit the IAB's signature to this letter and follow it 
  up with an email or blog post to the community.


3. Update on IAB Website 

  Cindy Morgan reported that there are two open technical issues with 
  the new IAB Website. One is a trivial cosmetic issue that appears in 
  some older versions of Safari that shouldn't prevent the new website 
  from being deployed. 

  The other issue is that the sidebar navigation (required to navigate 
  to child pages on mobile browsers) is showing the wrong level of 
  page. Fixing this will require a new template from the designer. The 
  current timeline for getting that is January/February 2024.

  Cindy Morgan manually added links to all of the child pages on their 
  respective parent pages as a temporary workaround until the sidebar 
  navigation can be fixed, and asked the IAB if they were okay with 
  proceeding to move the new website in production with that 
  workaround. The IAB agreed that would be fine.

  Cindy Morgan noted that the IAB had planned to move their wikis from 
  MediaWiki into Wikijs once the website move had completed. However, 
  moving iab.org to a Wagtail site requires moving the wiki to a 
  different namespace first. Given that, Cindy will work with Liz Flynn 
  to move the public wiki to Wikijs in December, before moving the new 
  website into production.


4. References to Workshop papers

  Cindy Morgan will copy the M-TEN Workshop papers from GitHub into the 
  Datatracker.


5. ISOC BOT Appointment Timeline 

  The IAB approved the timeline for the ISOC Board of Trustees 
  appointment.

  The IAB noted that they want a diverse group of candidates, which 
  will require the IAB to do some recruiting. The IAB will add an item 
  on this topic to one of their business meetings in December.


6. Future of Technical Plenaries 

  The IAB discussed whether to bring back technical plenaries. 

  The IAB agreed that the current model of having invited speakers come 
  to the IAB Open Meeting has been working well. However, the IAB 
  agreed that if there ever was an important topic that would be of 
  interest to the entire IETF community, the IAB would consider hosting 
  that as a technical plenary.


7. Scheduling of program meetings

  Mirja Kühlewind noted that both the EDM and EIMPACT programs met 
  during lunch slots at IETF 118, and asked whether this was the right 
  way to schedule program meetings going forward.

  Suresh Krishnan said that program meetings should not be run like 
  Working Groups. He suggested that virtual interim meetings might be 
  better. Tommy Pauly agreed, noting that virtual interim meeting have 
  been helpful for EDM.


8. Executive Session: Appeal of IESG appeal decision on Meeting 
   Guidance 

  The IAB discussed the appeal of the of IESG appeal decision on 
  Meeting Guidance in an executive session. Wes Hardaker and Dhruv 
  Dhody will draft a response to the appeal.