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: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Monday June 25 2018, @06:05PM (5 children)
As someone who has done work with the IETF and met many folks involved in its work, I can tell you that the rites and ritual human sacrifices have nothing to do with religion, druidic or otherwise.
Just engineers being engineers.
As for separating the IETF from ISOC, that's not a big deal iMHO, as long as proceeds from fundraising and how those funds are used are completely transparent. Also, IETF meetings should only be held in places where cannabis is legal.
I have more demands, but I'll save them for the Internet Draft.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 25 2018, @06:15PM
I demand Internet-based rituals and a mandatory robe dress code.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @06:28PM
Perhaps you simply never get invited to those parties?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday June 25 2018, @06:43PM (2 children)
Also, per one of the larger druid groups in the US, the Reformed Druids of North America [rdna.info]:
So human sacrifice by the IETF is something that would be specifically opposed by druids today.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday June 25 2018, @06:49PM
Fucking IETF! How dare they treat human life with such little care!
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(Score: 2) by jelizondo on Tuesday June 26 2018, @12:37AM
Only in “reformed” Druidism; those following the Ancient and Accepted Rite have no objection.
Where do you think all those missing migrant children [snopes.com] went? The bits must flow regardless of cost, that’s the mentality that rightfully should pervade the IEFT.