Re: **New IESG Internal Web Page**

["Barbara B. Fuller" <bfuller@foretec.com>]

Hi Thomas:

Where shall I begin....

The good news is that redoing the IESG Internal Web Page has prompted you 
and others to start reviewing the Web pages accessed via the links on the 
IESG Internal Web Page.  The bad news is that many of these pages are in 
need of serious work.  Furthermore, some of these pages are updated from 
information sources that do not adhere to stringent format specifications 
and are therefore not really suitable for this purpose.

As you may recall from my presentation at the IESG retreat, the Secretariat 
is planning to develop two significant tools related to Working Groups:

(1) A Working Group Tracker, which will be similar to the ID Tracker, and 
which will allow interested parties to track the status of proposed working 
groups and rechartering efforts.

(2) A Working Group Information Updater, which will allow chairs and ADs to 
update information related to their working groups.

Once these tools are developed, the Secretariat (with input from the IESG) 
will determine which working-group-related Web pages are still required, 
and what information they should display, and will develop scripts to 
update them appropriately from the database.  At the same time, new 
subcategories will be introduced under the "Working Group Actions" section 
of the telechat agenda:

(1) WG Creation
(a) Proposed for IETF Review (i.e., Internal review has been completed)
(b) Proposed for Approval (i.e., External review has been 
completed...including review by "New Work")

(2) WG Rechartering
(a) Under evaluation for IESG Review (i.e., IESG to determine if a "formal" 
review process is required or if the changes are small enough to be made 
without formal review)
(b) Proposed for Approval (i.e., External Review was considered necessary, 
and has been completed)

In the meantime, we are looking into the possibility of "spiffing up" the 
Web page that lists working groups that are currently being reviewed by the 
IESG.  We don't want to spend TOooo much time on this task since it is only 
a temporary fix.

Thank you so much for your input.  It is always welcomed...and appreciated :-)

Regards,

Barbara
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At 06:53 AM 5/12/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> Under the proposed WG charters page.
>
> It is unclear from looking at the one charter here what type of WG
> action it is. Is this a recharter of a new WG? Charter for a new WG?
> And, has a copy of  it been sent to new-work yet? Lots of ways to do
> this (e.g, explicit subsections for each category).
>
> This is the same type of question for a WG charter when it appears on
> the agenda, but IMO the information should be here too.
>
> Thomas
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