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The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken another step on its road to independence, publishing a for-discussion proposal covering its likely administrative arrangements.
It's part of a process we first reported in April of this year, designed to formalise the arrangements that keep the 'net's technical standards flowing. The effort also aims to give the IETF a formal administrative existence, something it's lacked despite being around since the early days of the Internet.
Creating a proper entity matters for the day-to-day administrivia of signing off spending and the like, and the group has published an outline of how it proposes to structure itself.
In this Internet-Draft, Brian Haberman, Joseph Lorenzo Hall and Jason Livingood propose transferring responsibilities currently held by the Internet Administrative Director and the Internet Society (ISOC) to a newly-created company to handle those roles.
The board of the company would take over the work of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC), which currently provides the financial and administrative support the IETF needs to function.
[...] The company would also need to remain responsive to its community, the draft stated, and will be responsible for exercising diligence to minimise risks to IETF participants and the IETF as a whole.
The draft also covers board and management responsibilities, board composition and recruitment, the make-up of an interim board for the setup period, and so on.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by pvanhoof on Monday June 25 2018, @05:44PM (5 children)
Don't make a Code of Conduct
Don't let social justice warriors run the board
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday June 25 2018, @06:01PM (1 child)
That's a contradiction: If you say "Board members who show signs of being social justice warriors shall not be a majority of the board and will be removed as necessary to ensure that they do not have a majority", that's creating a code of conduct that demands that board members not behave like social justice warriors (however that is understood or defined, this is all vague terminology).
What you actually want is to ensure that no Code of Conduct including rules you disagree with is established.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Tuesday June 26 2018, @09:39AM
Agreed. Let's go with just the first rule then. That might also block the social justice warriors from arriving in the first place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @06:51PM (2 children)
Politicians *will* take over and eventually they will turn to social justice to virtue signal among their peers.
(Score: 3, Touché) by PiMuNu on Monday June 25 2018, @09:02PM
Or to alt-right stupidity (ARS) to virtue signal to a different peer group
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @05:42PM
Boogey boogey boooo!