Re: Access control on the IETF web

[Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>]

Harald,
	In general, I think this goes to the question of how active
you want the IESG's direct management to be in matters like
this.  I personally would draw up guidelines and let the
Secretariat handle the whole thing.  That might say something like
"pages under the IESG subdirectory require IESG approval",
but would not imply that every new page meeting the guidelines
needed approval by the IESG.  If a working group chair, for example,
wanted to maintain a page with additional info on deployment or
implementation in conjunction with the charter page, the guidelines
should say whether or not this type of auxiliary page is supported, but
I see no reason not to give them the authority to decide what's on
the page and when it goes up within that guideline.
	My 2 cents on this,
					regards,
							Ted



On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 10:39 AM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> Folks,
>
> the WG Chairs' FAQ was placed on the WG Chairs web page without anyone 
> being asked if that was appropriate; it was even placed as if it had 
> been an IESG document.
>
> I think that's wrong.
>
> I suggest that we make the following rule:
>
> - The secretariat does what the secretariat does; maintain the pages 
> they are responsible for, suggest changes to pages for which they are 
> not, check when in doubt.
>
> - An IESG member can ask for a page to be added or changed. No limits; 
> if we do something wrong, we handle that internally.
>
> - Anyone else asking for some new page to be added gets that question 
> sent to the IESG. The response should be one of:
>  - No
>  - Yes, but ask again every time a change is asked for
>  - Yes, and the author can send in updates when he wants to
>    (and the page identifies who the maintainer is)
> It's OK to put up the page with no links to it before asking the IESG, 
> so that the ADs can look at it.
> First AD to respond wins; some pages are definitely some specific AD's 
> interest, so we shouldn't require an IESG consensus for this.
>
> - The IESG can request changes to ownership.
>
> - This text gets formatted and put somewhere on a Web page :-)
>
> Makes sense?
>
>                 Harald