Process for Organization of Internet Standards 95 (poised95) Charter

NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 35th IETF Meeting in Los Angeles. It may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.

Chair(s)

Karl Auerbach <[email protected]>
Erik Huizer <[email protected]>
Bernhard Stockman <[email protected]>

None Director(s):

Fred Baker <[email protected]>

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Description of Working Group

The POISED95 Working Group is a focused effort to resolve some long-standing issues of the standards process and IETF procedure:

o The Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) section of RFC 1602 is widely seen as inoperative, because it demands guarantees and procedures when licensing technologies that few, if any, donors will accept.

o The procedures of the NOMCOM, or Nominating Committee, have been quite informal and different with every NOMCOM. They need to be codified.

o Standards procedure documented in RFC 1602 needs to be restated to reflect reality and to remove obsolete provisions.

o The ISOC has proposed creating a link between the IETF and ISOC, and has even created a committee to study the issue. The IETF needs a corresponding effort.

o Other issues as appropriate.

As befits an international organization, POISED95 will meet in Stockholm and Dallas to try and gauge a rough consensus on these issues and develop guidelines and drafts for the appropriate documents.

Goals and Milestones

Jul 95: Meet at Stockholm IETF.
Dec 95: Meet at Dallas IETF.
Feb 96: Submit Internet-Draft.