RE: Tag's WEIRD Framework

Tag, thanks for your comments and interest. I think the framework you
suggest is in scope.

It turns out that draft-burke-realusers never got published as an internet
draft. At the last minute April and I decided to use it as the basis for a
WEIRD draft that the group could work on together (i.e.
draft-ietf-weird-realusers, or some such). I think the text of
draft-burke-realusers was posted to this list and USV a while ago, you might
find it in an archive. I'll also send you the text separately.

I'd like the output of WEIRD to show how various standards activities in the
IETF (and possibly elsewhere) fit together. This leads to both a more
informed public and more effective participation by (esp. new) IETFers. The
two views correlate well with your surface / focal point framework.

The view to the public that I envision is something like, "intserv +
diffserv + mobileip + impp + webdav + vpim + ipsec + reliable_multicast =
foo", where we explain "foo" as a specific architectural / functional goal
of the IAB and demystify some of the component enabling technologies without
getting too subjective.

The view to IETFers that I envision is "if you participate in WG-K in Area
Y, you might also want to participate in WG-N in Area X, because bar", where
we explain "bar" as a specific dependency or interrelationship among these
IETF activities.

Maybe a good way to get the ball rolling is for list subscribers to
contribute sets of relations like the ones I've described above, either for
the public view or for the IETFer view. If this sounds OK, have at it!

Chris Burke
([email protected], or [email protected])

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