Internet DRAFT - draft-iucg-iutf-tasks
draft-iucg-iutf-tasks
Network Working Group Jean-Francois C. Morfin
Internet-Draft Intlnet
Intended status: For information March 5, 2012
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Intelligent Use Task Force
draft-iucg-iutf-tasks-01.txt
Abstract
The Intelligent Use Task Force (IUTF) has responsibility for
organizing Dedicated Interest Groups (DIG) to research, document and
validate solutions in the area of Intelligent Use Interfaces (IUI)
between the various components of the whole digital ecosystem (WDE),
the resulting intelligent global network (IGNet), the diversity of
on-line facilitation services that their IUI and IGNet may bring to
people and machines. This document describes the guidelines and
procedures for the formation, operations, experimentations and
publications of IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups and their internal and
external relations with other SDOs (Standardization and Documentation
Organizations). Its publication as an IETF Draft is part of the IUCG
liaison.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction................................................... 4
1.1. IUTF Mission............................................. 4
1.2. IUTF Organization........................................ 4
1.3. IUTF Stewardship......................................... 5
1.4. IUTF participating Members............................... 6
2. Terminology.................................................... 6
3. The IUTF deliverables.......................................... 6
3.1. WISPs.................................................... 7
4. IUTF culture................................................... 7
4.1. IUTF Ethics.............................................. 7
4.2. Multiconsensus........................................... 8
5. IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups................................. 9
6. DIG Formation................................................. 10
6.1. Criteria for formation.................................. 11
6.2. Charter................................................. 12
6.2.1. Dedicated Interest Group Name..................... 12
6.2.2. Chair(s).......................................... 12
6.2.3. Online resources (cybship)........................ 12
6.2.4. Membership Policy................................. 13
6.2.5. Description of Dedicated Interest Group........... 13
7. Dedicated Interest Group Operance............................. 13
7.1. IUTF Chair.............................................. 14
7.2. IUSG Member............................................. 15
7.3. Dedicated Interest Group Chair.......................... 15
7.3.1. Staff roles....................................... 15
7.3.1.1. Ensuring the Dedicated Interest Group process and content managemen 15
7.3.1.2. Moderate the Dedicated Interest Group email list and wik 15
7.3.1.3. Organize, prepare, and chair face-to-face and online formal meeting 16
7.3.2. Communicate the results of meetings............... 16
7.3.3. Distribute the work............................... 16
7.4. Document development.................................... 16
7.5. Document publication.................................... 16
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8. Dedicated Interest Group Adminance............................ 16
8.1. Dedicated Interest Group Editor/Secretary............... 17
8.2. Position Clusters....................................... 17
9. DIG Revision.................................................. 17
10. Specialized Meetings......................................... 18
10.1. Meeting planning....................................... 18
10.2. Meeting venue.......................................... 18
10.3. Meeting management..................................... 19
11. Security considerations...................................... 19
11.1. Joint Security Reflection.............................. 19
11.2. President"s WDE Presentation and Tutorial.............. 19
12. IANA considerations.......................................... 20
13. Acknowledgments.............................................. 20
Requirements notation
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
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1. Introduction
The IUTF utilizes and co-documents the ALFA model of
intercommunications in their integrality (MICI) that respects the
normality as documented in the ISO standards and identifies five main
strata of human intercommunication in the WDE (whole digital
ecosystem):
* interlocutability: use of semiotic protocols: languages, gesture,
and movements (MLTF).
* interconnectibility: basic use of the bandwidth: telephone, TV,
radio and quantum (ITU).
* interoperationality: value-added use of this bandwidth: such as
the Internet (IETF).
* interintelligibility: extended services of intelligent interface:
such as the Internet+ (IUTF).
* intercomprehensibility: semantic use of intelligent links: such as
the Intersem of ideas (INTF).
These strata are, or must be, specifically documented as piles of
independent layers and complementary functions. The IUTF recognizes
and wish to liaise in each stratum with those organizations that
cooperate with their standardization, documentation, and stewardship.
1.1. IUTF Mission
The Intelligent Use Task Force (IUTF) has responsibility for
organizing Dedicated Interest Groups (DIG) to research, document and
validate solutions in the interintelligibility area of:
* Intelligent Use Interfaces between the various components of the
whole digital ecosystem (WDE),
* the resulting intelligent global network (IGNET),
* the diversity of facilitation on-line services these IUI and IGNET
may bring to the people and their machines.
1.2. IUTF Organization
IUTF activities are organized into Dedicated Interest Groups. This
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document describes the guidelines and procedures for the formation,
operations, experimentations, relations, and publications of IUTF
Dedicated Interest Groups. It describes the relationship between IUTF
participants, Dedicated Interest Groups, the Intelligent Use Steering
Group (IUSG), the IUse Group of Operance, Governance, Constituance
and Adminance (cf. below) related organizations, and the SDOs of
other technologies through Intelligent Use Contributing Groups
(IUCGs).
The basic duties of IUTF participants, including the IUTF Chair,
Dedicated Interest Group Chairs and IUSG members are defined.
The IUTF is composed of a number of focused, long-term, open
Dedicated Interest Groups. These groups work on topics related to the
architecture, protocol, applications, functions and technology of
Intelligent Use Interfaces between digital technologies, their own
networking and their underlying meta-data registries system (MDRS).
Dedicated Interest Groups are expected to have a stable, diversified,
long term membership of researchers, engineers and lead users.
Participation is by individual contributors, rather than by
representatives of organizations.
1.3. IUTF Stewardship
The IUTF is managed by the IUTF Chair in consultation with the
Intelligent Use Steering Group (IUSG). The IUSG membership includes
the IUTF Chair, the chairs of the various Dedicated Interest Group
and possibly other individuals ("members at large") from the IUse
Group and the IUse community.
The IUTF Chair is co-opted on a yearly and indefinitely renewable
basis by the IUSG. The Dedicated Interest Group chairs are appointed
as part of the formation of Dedicated Interest Groups (as detailed
below) and confirmed or renewed on a yearly basis. The IUSG members
at large are chosen by the IUTF Chair in consultation with the rest
of the IUSG.
In addition to managing the Dedicated Interest Groups, the IUSG may
from time to time hold topical workshops focusing on areas of
importance to the evolution of the IUI, the IGNET, and the MDRS, or
more general concertation workshops related to the IGNET and the IUse
Group gathering the IUSG approved short-term and contractual
operance, mid-term and international governance, long-term
technological constituance, and permanent technical adminance
organizations.
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1.4. IUTF participating Members
Except for "members at large" of the IUSG, there is no general
participation in the IUTF, only individual participation in specific
Dedicated Interest Groups. The IUTF was initially a branch of the
Intlnet non-profit association that was created in 1978. It will be
declared a French non-profit association on its own once its main
mailing list has reached the threshold of one hundred active
participants.
2. Terminology
The document uses: "SHALL", "WILL", "MUST" and "REQUIRED" where it
describes steps in the process that are essential. It uses:
"SUGGESTED", "SHOULD" and "MAY" where guidelines are described that
are not essential, but are strongly recommended to help smooth
Dedicated Interest Group operation. The terms "they", "them" and
"their" are used in this document as third-person singular pronouns.
This conventional wording will be consistently used throughout the
IUTF deliverables. The use of "IS/ARE" will reflect those aspects
that cannot be modified by the IUTF. This includes the ITU and IETF
"MUST", "SHALL", "WILL", and "REQUIRED", and the "MUST", "SHALL",
"WILL", and "REQUIRED" of the IUTF when documenting layers above the
layers that are documented by the ITU and the IETF.
3. The IUTF deliverables
The task of the IUTF is to produce high quality, relevant technical
and engineering documents, under the form of maintained wiki
documents (MWD), that will sustain the facilitation of the
man/machine relations of our "anthrobotical" information and help
people more adequately design, use, manage and master their digital
resources.
These MWD will be presented as permanently and consistently
maintained semantically linked wiki outputs associated to the MDRS
metadata registries. They will deliver concerted advises, best
current practices, experimentation reports, information and
intellition under formally finalized and approved presentations wiki
documents (MWD), individually introduced and edited IUSG approved
Individual Wiki Pages (IWP), and on-going IUse working wiki pages
(IUWW).
The MWD/IWP/MDRS form the technical distributed and duplicable
referent suite of the Internet+ community. It SHOULD strive to stay
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interoperable with the ISO 3166 and 639 standards and with the IANA
Registries. MWD/IUWW can be initiated by an individual in a DIG, by a
DIG as a whole with a designated Editor, or by a position clique
within a DIG. This last case should be the usual way to start working
towards a multiconsensus. The designated author(s) need not include
the group Chair(s).
The review may either be done by the IUTF Chair, the IUSG, or an
independent reviewer selected by the IUTF Chair. The MWD status will
be accepted by the IUSG consensus.
3.1. WISPs
IUTF business is carried by mailing lists and supported by Wiki
Information and Service Pages (WISP). For example, before a meeting,
a WISP (and appendixes) should publish all relevant documents and
keep maintained the agenda of meetings, and its minutes a few days
later on. It will be helpful to provide on-line references for the
electronic mailing list accompanying possible debate.
4. IUTF culture
Ultimately aiming at the facilitation of intercomprehension, the IUTF
culture is based upon a distributed multicentric and ubiquitous
vision of the WDE where every person is the center of his/her
comprehension of the world and the universe is the dynamic interface
of all these comprehensions.
It can be summarized as "multiconsensus and living mode" as compared
with the IETF "rough consensus and running code". The whole challenge
of the IUCGs as liaisons at the different SDOs will precisely be to
translate the implications and requirements of this vision at their
respective layers.
4.1. IUTF Ethics
The IUTF adheres to open standard oriented ethical principles, some
of which it shares in continuity with the IETF and other SDOs:
* Open process - any interested person can participate in the work,
know what is being decided, and make his or her voice heard on the
issue. Part of this principle is the commitment to making
documents, DIG mailing lists, Wikis, attendance lists, and meeting
minutes publicly available online.
* Technical competence - the issues on which the IUTF delivers are
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issues where the IUTF has the needed competence and that the IUTF
is willing to listen to technically competent input from any
source. Technical competence also means that the IUTF output is
expected to proceed from sound engineering and scientific
principles, open agorical considerations, and a consistent
architectony.
* Volunteer Core - IUTF participants and leadership are to be those
who come to the IUTF because they want to do work that furthers
the IUTF's ambition of "making WDE use intelligently facilitated".
* Multi-consensus and living mode. IUTF propositions are to be based
on the combined scientist, engineering, and lead user judgment of
its participants and their real-world experimentation and ongoing
feedback.
* Public comments. The public is invited to send comments to the
wikipage associated talk page and mail address and to participate
in general discussion on the related DIG mailing list.
4.2. Multiconsensus
The basis for multiconsensus is the need for the interintelligibility
between different technologies and people logics that is to emerge
from IUTF debates. It proceeds from what IUTF calls the agoric.
Where:
* logic is the rules of reason dealing with information (data that
were ignored) and the path to formal conclusions,
* agoric (from Greek agora) is the methods of intelligence dealing
with intellition (data links that were unknown) and the evolution
to acceptable emergences.
A multiconsensus is formed when there are different position
clusters, which demonstrate that they reached an internal
documentation consensus that is fully understood by the other
position clusters, and all the position clusters were able to find a
consensus on the way to document and compare all these positions, and
on the possibility or the inability to interface them under some
general or local conditions. The multiconsensus formula permits IUTF
to simultaneously present seemingly conflicting solutions the sets of
which may emerge as interoperable and able to support new living
modes of separated subsidiary operations.
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Other areas of application of multiconsensus are:
* multilinguistics, which is understood as the discipline of the
cybernetics of the linguistic diversity, considering all the
languages and cultures as technically and interactively equal in
people use and applications support.
* architectonics: facilitated intercomprehension calls for
cross-referentialization between the facilitating processes. It
can only be based upon polynymy (synonymy in different languages
or perceptions). Documenting polynymy demands multiconsensus.
* experimentation: the IUTF encourages intertesting, i.e. using the
Internet+ as its own test bed. The purpose of experimentation is
to review propositions in real life and observe how their agoric
scales (fom a scaling threshold to the next) in preserving the
underlying logics or if new rules emerge. A scaling threshold is
when experimentation shows there is a change due to the scale.
In a more general manner, it is expected that multiconsensus should
help cross-pollenizing positions and lead to more structured and
robust emergent architectures protected by their intricate simplicity
(RFC 3439) from a commercially or politically influenced technical
bias (cf. RFC 3869).
To be able to consider the largest number of different needs and to
focus on the interoperability of the proposed solutions through a
multiconsensus is considered as a necessary IUTF application of the
precautionary principle: no one has to take the risk of an error in
trying to speak on behalf of those who are to be interfaced or to
master the other technologies that are to be interfaced.
More generally, the IUTF will be interested in exploring a theory of
intellition and agoric systems able to assist in dealing with the
application of the principle of subsidiarity to its network
architecture.
5. IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups
The IUTF atom is the Dedicated Interest Group (DIG). Dedicated
Interest Groups are the activity centers in the IUTF. The leading DIG
is the IUSG.
IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups are formed to encourage research,
common work and experimentation, documentation and permanent
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monitoring in areas of importance to the evolution of Intelligent use
and digital facilitation. Clearly, anyone may conduct such tasks,
whether or not they are members of a Dedicated Interest Group. The
expectation is that by sponsoring Dedicated Interest Groups, the IUTF
can foster cross-organizational concertation, help to create
"critical mass" in important areas, add to the visibility and impact
of the work and conclusions, maintain a comprehensive structured
documentation, and foster adequate operance, maintenance,
constituance, and adminance cooperation.
IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups may have open or closed memberships.
Limited membership may be advantageous to the formation of the
long-term working relationships that are critical to successful
collaborative research and for time limited experimentation projects.
However, limited membership must be used with care and sensitivity to
avoid any unnecessary fragmentation of the work of the research
community. Allowing limited membership in multiple Dedicated Interest
Groups working on the same topic may be a way to more easily reach
multiconsensuses, in particular when the different technologies and
visions that are involved are well established with different
objectives that they have to multiconsensually document.
The work of the IUSG is expected to be marked by informality. The
goal is to encourage and foster valuable contributions by members who
are engaged in other research, engineering, and business activities,
and not to add burdensome bureaucracy to the endeavor.
6. DIG Formation
A Dedicated Interest Group is typically created to address a research
area related to the Intelligent Use of the Whole Digital Ecosystem.
Dedicated Interest Groups have the stable long-term and diversified
membership that is needed to promote the development of collaboration
and teamwork in exploring new issues and listening to participating
or not end users. Participation is by individual contributors, rather
than by representatives of organizations.
A Dedicated Interest Group may be established at the initiative of an
individual or group of individuals. Anyone interested in creating an
IUTF Dedicated Interest Group must submit a charter for the proposed
group to the IUTF Chair along with a list of proposed founding
members. The charter will be reviewed by the IUSG after being
published for comments by the IUse community.
If approved, the charter is placed on the IUTF website and receives
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an IUTF wikipage and talk page and is advised to set-up a mailing
list.
6.1. Criteria for formation
In determining whether it is appropriate to create a Dedicated
Interest Group, the IUTF Chair, the IUSG, and the IUse community will
consider several issues:
* Is the area that the Dedicated Interest Group plans to address
clear and relevant for the IUse community?
* Will the formation of the Dedicated Interest Group foster work
that would not be done otherwise? Membership drawn from more than
a single institution, more than a single country, and so on, is to
be encouraged.
* Do the Dedicated Interest Group's activities overlap with those of
another Dedicated Interest Group? If so, it may still be
appropriate to create the Dedicated Interest Group, but this
question must be considered carefully since subdividing efforts
often dilutes the available technical expertise. In such a case, a
joint Dedicated Interest Group may be created and a common charter
on the targeted area of a multi-consensus approved.
* Is there sufficient interest and expertise in the Dedicated
Interest Group's topic with at least several people willing to
expend the effort that is likely to produce significant results
over time? Dedicated Interest Groups require considerable effort,
including the management of the Dedicated Interest Group process,
editing of Dedicated Interest Group documents, and contribution to
the wikipage text.
The IETF/IRTF experience suggests that these roles cannot all be
handled by one person; at least four or five active participants are
typically required. To help in this determination, a proposal to
create a Dedicated Interest Group should include a list of potential
charter members.
The IUse community review will help determining the proposed
Dedicated Interest Group overlaps and complementarities with other
Dedicated Interest Groups or Projected Groups and the consistency
with the WDE architectony and IUTF architecture.
6.2. Charter
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The formation of a Dedicated Interest Group requires a charter, which
is initially negotiated between a prospective Dedicated Interest
Group Chair and the IUTF Chair. When the prospective Chair and the
IUTF Chair are satisfied with the charter form and content, it
becomes the basis for forming a Dedicated Interest Group.
A charter is a contract between a Dedicated Interest Group and the
IUTF to conduct research, evaluation, documentation, and monitoring
in the designated area. Charters may be renegotiated periodically to
reflect changes to the current status of the art, participants'
thinking or position clusters, or goals of the Dedicated Interest
Group.
An IUTF Dedicated Interest Group charter comprises five sections:
6.2.1. Dedicated Interest Group Name
A Dedicated Interest Group name should be reasonably descriptive or
identifiable. Additionally, the group shall define an acronym
(maximum 8 printable ASCII characters) to reference the group in the
IUTF directories, mailing lists, websites, and general documents. The
name and acronym must not conflict with any IUTF names and acronyms,
nor - if possible - with IETF, IRTF, W3C, etc. names and acronyms
unless for cooperation purposes.
6.2.2. Chair(s)
The Dedicated Interest Group may have one or two Chair(s) to perform
the administrative functions of the group. The IUTF email address(es)
of the Chair(s) shall be published.
6.2.3. Online resources (cybship)
Each Dedicated Interest Group shall have an address (possibly the
Chair's) for the members of the Internet community to send queries
regarding the Dedicated Interest Group. For instance, for requests to
join the group.
A Dedicated Interest Group, whether limited membership or open, will
have an "interest" Internet mailing list open to all interested
parties.
This list is used for an open discussion of the issues and the
announcements of the results as they become available. Included
should be the address to which an interested party sends a
subscription request for the interest list and the procedures to
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follow when subscribing, and the location of the interest mailing
list archive.
It is expected that a Dedicated Interest Group also has a mailing
list limited to its members on which a substantial part of the work
of a Dedicated Interest Group is likely to be conducted via e-mail.
6.2.4. Membership Policy
The Charter must define the membership policy (whether open or
limited), and the procedure to apply for membership in the group.
While limited membership is permitted, it is in no way encouraged or
required.
6.2.5. Description of Dedicated Interest Group
The focus and intent of the group shall be set forth briefly. By
reading this section alone, an individual should be able to decide
whether this group is relevant to their own work. The first paragraph
must give a brief summary of the Dedicated Interest area, basis,
goal(s), and approach(es) planned for the Dedicated Interest Group.
This paragraph will frequently be used as an overview of the
Dedicated Interest Group's effort.
To facilitate the evaluation of the intended work and to provide
ongoing guidance to the Dedicated Interest Group, the charter shall
describe the proposed research and shall discuss the objectives and
expected impact with respect to the IUTF architectony and respective
architecture.
7. Dedicated Interest Group Operance
Dedicated Interest Groups are autonomous and each determines most of
the details of its own operation with respect to session
participation, reaching closure, norms of behavior, etc.
During the research phase, the multiconsensus of the group is not
required. Rather, the measure of success is the quality and impact of
the research results.
A number of procedural questions and issues will arise over time, and
it is the function of the Dedicated Interest Group Chair to manage
the group process, keeping in mind that the overall purpose of the
group is to make progress towards realizing the Dedicated Interest
Group's goals and objectives.
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There are a few hard and fast rules on organizing or conducting
Dedicated Interest Group activities, but a set of guidelines and
practices have evolved over time at IETF and IRTF that have proven
successful. These external points of experience are listed here, with
the actual choices that are typically determined by the Dedicated
Interest Group members and the Chair.
7.1. IUTF Chair
The IUTF Chair is responsible for ensuring that Dedicated Interest
Groups produce coherent, coordinated, architecturally consistent, and
timely output as a contribution to the overall evolution of the
Intelligent Use area.
In addition to the detailed tasks related to Dedicated Interest
Groups outlined below, the IUTF Chair may also from time to time
arrange for topical workshops to be attended by the IUSG and perhaps
other experts in the field.
When required by the situation, in particular during the start-up and
crisis time, the Chair may unilaterally decide and have his/her
decisions reviewed when the situation has stabilized. This includes
the creation of new DIGs.
With the assistance of the IUSG, the IUTF Chair:
* monitors the range of activities. This may include encouraging the
formation of Dedicated Interest Groups directly, rather than
waiting for proposals from IUTF participants.
* coordinates the work done by the various Dedicated Interest
Groups.
* reports on IUTF progress to the IUse community via the IUTF and
the IUse community wikis.
* tracks and manages the progress of the various Dedicated Interest
Groups with the aid of a regular status report on the documents
and accomplishments from the Dedicated Interest Group Chairs. The
resulting reports are made available to the community at large at
regular intervals.
This requires considerable care and feeding, which can be arranged
through a secretariat organized by the IUSG and benefiting from the
efforts of those participants filling specific functional roles.
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7.2. IUSG Member
Members of the IUSG are responsible for advising the IUTF Chair on
the chartering of new Dedicated Interest Groups and other matters
relating to the smooth operation of the IUTF. Dedicated Interest
Group chairs are members of the IUSG..
7.3. Dedicated Interest Group Chair
The Dedicated Interest Group Chair is concerned with making forward
progress in the areas under investigation, and has wide discretion in
the conduct of his Dedicated Interest Group's business. The Chair
must ensure that a number of tasks are performed, either directly or
by others assigned to the tasks. This encompasses, at the very least,
the following:
7.3.1. Staff roles
As for the IUSG, Dedicated Interest Groups require considerable care
and feeding. In addition to general participation, successful
Dedicated Interest Groups benefit from the efforts of participants
filling specific functional roles.
7.3.1.1. Ensuring the Dedicated Interest Group process and content management
The Chair has the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that a
Dedicated Interest Group achieves forward progress. For some
Dedicated Interest Groups, this can be accomplished by having the
Chair perform all the management-related activities. In other
Dedicated Interest Groups -- particularly those with large or
divisive participation -- it is helpful to allocate process and/or
secretarial functions to other participants. Process management
pertains strictly to the style of Dedicated Interest Group
interaction and not to its content. The secretarial function
encompasses the preparation of minutes, and possibly the editing of
group-authored documents.
7.3.1.2. Moderate the Dedicated Interest Group email list and wiki
The Chair should attempt to ensure that the discussions on this list
are relevant and that they do not devolve to "flame" attacks or
rat-hole into technical trivia. The Chair should make sure that
discussions on the list and updates of the wikipages are summarized
and that the outcome is well documented (to avoid repetition).
7.3.1.3. Organize, prepare, and chair face-to-face and online formal meetings
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The Chair should plan and announce meetings well in advance. (See
section on Meeting Planning for procedures.)
7.3.2. Communicate the results of meetings
The Chair and/or Secretary must ensure that the minutes of a meeting
are taken and published on the DIG's wiki.
7.3.3. Distribute the work
It is expected that all Dedicated Interest Group participants will
actively contribute to the work of the group. Dedicated Interest
Group membership is expected to be a long-term commitment by a set of
motivated members of the research community. Of course, at any given
time more of the work is likely to be done by a few participants with
particular interests, set of skills, and ideas. It is the task of the
Chair to motivate enough experts to allow for a fair distribution of
the workload.
7.4. Document development
Dedicated Interest Groups produce documents, and documents need
authors.
However, the authorship of papers related to the work of a Dedicated
Interest Group is one of the primary reasons that researchers become
members and, therefore, finding motivated authors should not be a
problem.
It is up to the Dedicated Interest Group to decide the authorship of
papers resulting from Dedicated Interest Group activities. In
particular, authorship by the entire group is not required.
7.5. Document publication
The Chair and/or Secretary will work with the RFC Editor to ensure
that documents that are to be published as RFCs conform to the RFC
publication requirements and to coordinate any editorial changes
suggested by the RFC Editor.
8. Dedicated Interest Group Adminance
The IUTF adminance is ensured through mailing lists and wiki portals
and pages. Dedicated Interest Group manages their own set of pages.
The IUTF directory of (existing and projected) DIGs permits to obtain
a permanently maintained plex of the digital Intelligent Use area.
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This wiki will gather:
* the charters
* the IUSW: Stable WikiPage
* the IUWW: IUse Working Wikipages
* the IUMW: various types of IU Management Wikipages as listed in
the Dedicated Interest Group Wikipage.
8.1. Dedicated Interest Group Editor/Secretary
Taking the minutes and editing jointly-authored Dedicated Interest
Group documents is often performed by a specifically-designated
participant or set of participants.
8.2. Position Clusters
Multiconsensus is formalized between position clusters. Their
administration will be organized by a facilitator that is accepted by
the DIG Chair. They will be allocated wikipages. In order to preserve
transparency and mutual understanding, it is not advised to create
cluster mailing lists, except when the amount of work of a cluster or
the tension between clusters may justify it.
9. DIG Revision
If, at some point, it becomes evident that a Dedicated Interest Group
is not making progress in the research areas defined in its charter,
or fails to regularly report the results of its research to the
community, the IUTF Chair can, in consultation with the Group Chair
and Members, either:
1. Require that the group recharters to refocus on a different set
of problems,
2. Request that the group choose (a) new Chair(s),
3. Merge groups, or
4. Disband the group.
If the Dedicated Interest Group, or one of its members, disagrees
with anIUTF Chair's choice, it/he/she may appeal to the IUSG. If
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it/he/she still disagree with the IUSG response, it/he/she may
initiate an IUse community controversy to help everyone better
understand the community expectations. This controversy will be
closed by a multi-consensus statement of the IUTF Chair, the IUSG,
and of the Dedicated Interest Group Chair or of the disagreeing
party. The final decision of the IUTF Chair prevails.
10. Specialized Meetings
10.1. Meeting planning
For coordinated, structured Dedicated Interest Group interactions,
the Chair must publish to the group mailing list a draft agenda well
in advance of the actual meeting. The agenda needs to contain at
least:
* The items for discussion;
* The estimated time necessary per item; and
* A clear indication of what documents the participants will need to
read before the meeting in order to be well prepared.
A Dedicated Interest Group will conduct much of its business via its
electronic mail distribution list(s) and wikiset. It is also likely
to meet periodically to accomplish those things that are better
achieved in more interactive meetings, such as brainstorming, heated
altercations, etc. Meetings may be scheduled as a telephone
conference, a video teleconference, or face-to-face (physical)
meetings.
It is strongly encouraged that all Dedicated Interest Group meetings
be recorded in written minutes, to keep those members informed who
were not present and the community at large and to document the
proceedings for present and future members. These minutes should
include the agenda for the meeting, an account of the high points of
the discussion, and a list of attendees. Unless the Dedicated
Interest Group chair decides otherwise, the minutes should be sent to
the interest group and made available through the corresponding
wikiset.
10.2. Meeting venue
Each Dedicated Interest Group will determine the balance of email and
face-to-face meetings that is appropriate for making progress on its
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goals.
Electronic mail permits the easiest and most affordable
participation; face-to-face meetings often enable a better focus,
more productive debate, and enhanced working relationships.
10.3. Meeting management
The challenge to managing Dedicated Interest Group meetings is to
balance the need for the consideration of the various issues,
opinions, and approaches against the need to allow forward progress.
The Dedicated Interest Group, as a whole, has the final
responsibility for striking this balance.
11. Security considerations
The IUTF is to help IUsers protect their cybships at the presentation
stratum mainly through architectural options, and also through
cultural influence and protocol documentation. For this, it will
adopt a strong "ethitechnical" approach consisting in influencing the
architecture, design, and standards in order to retain an ethics,
security, and privacy respecting use that is technically simpler,
cheaper, and more rewarding.
11.1. Joint Security Reflection
The Internet+ architectural framework has direct influence on the
whole digital ecosystem's homeostasis, behavior, stability, etc. and
on its use. This certainly has impacts on military, industrial,
economic, and cultural issues. This is why a joint reflection with
governments and national, business, civil society, international, and
standardization organizations is undoubtedly necessary. This should
be organized at the IUSG level.
11.2. President"s WDE Presentation and Tutorial
There is a general agreement that some propositions of law
demonstrate a deep misunderstanding of the WDE (whole digital
ecosystem) in general, of the Legacy Internet in particular, and
certainly of the Internet technology as plainly embodied in the
Internet+ architectural framework.
There is, therefore, an urgent need for an
Internet/Internet+/Intersem pedagogical effort towards the education
of the world's high-level decision makers themselves (not only their
staff).
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The IUTF will, therefore, engage in the preparation and in the
maintenance of a joint "President's WDE Presentation and Tutorial"
(PWDEPT), aiming at providing cabinet ministers, law makers, top
executives, researchers in other disciplines, opinion leaders, and
press a personal tutorial of reference for comprehending the WDE, its
main components, mutual interactions, and foreseeable or possible
incremental, disruptive, and fundamental evolution. A quarterly
update mail should keep them updated on the technological evolution.
Online annexes (under a wiki format) should provide the necessary
references as well as a multilingual glossary.
This PWDEPT should be the result of a multiconsensual work within the
WSIS IGF framework. It should be planned to be authored in common by
all the SDOs, governments, Internet providers, civil society,
chambers of commerce, corporations, associations, societies,
international organizations, R&D and lead users that would like to
participate on a neutral information basis. It should be
multilingual, at least published and maintained in French and
English, and as much as possible in the main UN languages.
Participants will be provided one page in order to introduce
themselves and provide clarifications on their own positions. For
profit participants will be asked to participate in the costs of the
secretariat and site hosting.
12. IANA considerations
The IUTF model considers five communications strata, which are made
of their own specialized layers. The principle of a layer is to serve
the layer above it in using the input received from the layer below
it, all in accordance with its own rules, protocols, and parameters.
The IUTF respects and uses the IANA as the referent of the Internet
layers and includes its tables in its own MDRS for internal
consistency.
13. Acknowledgments
The text of this document heavily draughts on the texts of IETF RFC
2014 by Abel Weinrib and Jon Postel (IRTF description) and RFC 3935
(IETF mission) by Harald Alvestrand, the IUTF aiming at reproducing
their time and success proven working style and organization in a
manner adapted to its own architectural layers, diversity of
contributors, interfaced technologies, and particular implication in
fostering IUse community services.
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Author's address
Jean-Francois C. Morfin
INTLNET
120 chemin des Crouzettes
Saint-Vincent de Barbeyrargues
34730 Saint-Vincent de Barbeyrargues
France
Phone: (33.9)
Email: jefsey@jefsey.com
URI: http://intlnet.org
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