Subject: Non-technical changes affecting the IETF

From: IETF Chair <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 17:33:42 +0200

All,

A while ago I asked for volunteers to help us understand some of the non-technical changes around the IETF. Some of these changes may affect how we should run our operations: changing participation, changing forms of co-operation, changing landscapes in the area of standards organisations, open source, and so on.

My goal was to set up a design team. This effort was inspired by involvement in various decisions that the IETF leadership has to take part in. I find myself often wishing to be able to draw more on the understanding trends and their impact on the IETF.

Alia Atlas, Avri Doria, Tobias Gondrom, Olaf Kolkman, Steve Olshansky, Benson Schliesser, Robert Sparks, Russ White joined the team (thank you!) and the first result from the team is now available as an Internet Draft.

My thoughts on this are in a blog entry here: https://www.ietf.org/blog/2016/03/non-technical-trends-affecting-the-ietf/

And the draft is here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-arkko-ietf-trends-and-observations

But our opinion is just that — our opinion. What do you all in the IETF community think about this? What changes do you foresee? Please direct discussion about this topic to the [email-masked] mailing list.

Jari Arkko, IETF Chair