Subject: proposed Charter: pls review

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 00:10:14 PDT

DRAFTCharter--Data Link Switching (DLSw) Special 
Interest Group (SIG)

1.  PURPOSE OF GROUP.  The Data Link Switching (DLSw) 
Special Interest Group (SIG) Charter is formed to 
develop a draft standard for the routing of SNA, APPN, 
and NetBIOS traffic.

2.	GOAL OF WORK.  The goal of the SIG's work is to 
provide interoperation among routers of different 
vendors implementing DLSw.

3.	MILESTONES.  The goal of the SIG is to 

	a.	September 1993:  Present selected written 
proposals for decisions.

	b.	January 1994 (or first 1994 AIW):  Present 
final written proposals for decisions.  All agreed-upon 
proposals from this meeting will be coordinated before 
next meeting into a semifinal draft.

	c.	April 1994 (or second 1994 AIW):  Decide on 
semifinal draft, with only editorial changes remaining.  
Vendors should be able to begin product development 
based on this draft.

	d.	June 1994 (or third 1994 AIW):  Make final 
editing changes made in time for a final document 
decision.  SIG should be able to submit this document as 
a draft to the IETF.

4.	IETF INTENT.  Upon completion of the work it is the 
further intent of the group to submit the work to the 
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a draft 
standard.

5.	MEMBERSHIP.  

	a.	QUALIFICATIONS.  Membership on the SIG is 
limited to 1) vendors with an interest in implementing 
the standard on their product, 2) users with an interest 
in using the standard in their organizations, and 3) 
consultants and other service organizations with an 
interested in assisting their clients with regard to the 
standard.

	b.	FEES.  The SIG may choose to levy such fees on 
its members as it agrees are necessary for the work of 
the SIG.  The AIW currently sponsors all secretariat 
expenses of the SIG (meeting space, Internet mail 
exploder, legal counsel, draft publication) and the 
member organizations cover the expenses of their 
representatives' participation (including travel and AIW 
conference fees).

	c.	NO COMMITMENT TO IMPLEMENT.  Membership does 
not mean that a member has agreed to implement the 
resulting standard.

	d.	ACTIVE PARTICIPATION.  All members are 
expected to actively contribute and critique technical 
approaches.

	e.	PUBLIC DOMAIN.  All work contributed to this 
effort by the participants is considered to be in the 
public domain and usable by all.

	f.	CONSENSUS.  Technical decisions will be made 
on the bases of technical consensus; i.e., technical 
discussion will continue until a favored approach 
emerges.  Speedy resolution of technical issues is 
considered a key consideration in this work.  This 
consensus may be made at AIW meetings or through the 
Internet electronic mail or other official meetings, as 
discussed below in 7.

6.	DRAFT STANDARD.

	a.	WORKING DRAFT.  The starting point for the 
work is RFC 1434 as published by IBM in July 1993.  IBM 
agrees that RFC 1434 is a public document and that any 
vendor may implement any portion of that RFC or the 
draft developed by this SIG and may use the name Data 
Link Switching without incurring any legal or financial 
liability or obligation to IBM.

	b.	CHANGES.   Any changes to this document must 
be made by consensus of the group as discussed in 5.f.  

	c.	COMPLETENESS.  The draft must be complete and 
detailed enough to allow the interworking of all 
implementers' products for which the standard is 
faithfully implemented.  

	d.	SCOPE.  The intent of the DLSw standard is to 
address external interface standardization and to leave 
the implementation of the standard to each implementer.  

	e.	FOCUS.  In the interest of time, the SIG will 
focus first on required changes and adaptations.  Future 
versions of the document may contain significant 
expansion, but this will not be attempted in the first 
version.

7.	MEETINGS AND PROCESS.

	a.	FREQUENCY.  The SIG and its technical working 
groups will meet regularly as part of the scheduled AIW 
sessions, currently scheduled for three to four meetings 
per year.  

	b.	WORKING GROUPS.  The SIG will designate and 
dissolve such technical working groups as it may decide 
will serve its purposes.  Proposals from technical 
working groups must be approved by the SIG as a whole to 
be included in the SIG document.

	b.	MAILING LISTS.  Most of the SIG work is 
conducted on Internet mail exploder lists.  The SIG will 
have a general discussion list and a list for each 
working group.  The AIW will provide the list service 
postmaster.  Participation in the SIG is through the 
list-request alias.  

	c.	PUBLIC ARCHIVE.  The AIW will maintain an 
archive of all SIG electronic mail, the RFC 1434, posted 
proposals, and any SIG-approved complete or partial 
drafts in a publicly FTPable place.

	b.	ELECTRONIC MAIL DECISIONS.  Between meetings 
IBM will sponsor a mail exploder to facilitate the 
exchange of technical opinions and drafts.  Decisions 
may be made by consensus on electronic mail if 
sufficient time (two weeks after posting as an official 
ballot) is allowed for potential dissenters to publish 
their objections.  

	c.	ADDITIONAL OFFICIAL MEETINGS.  The SIG or its 
technical working groups may officially meet separately 
from the AIW as long as 1) the meeting is proposed in 
writing on the Internet mail exploder to the entire SIG 
or group at least 3 weeks in advance of such meeting and 
2) there is not significant objection on the Internet 
mail exploder to such a meeting.  These other official 
meetings may include videoconferences or 
teleconferences.  (For the purposes of this section, 
"official" means a meeting that is authorized to make 
decisions for the SIG or group.  Individual members of 
the SIG are free to interact with each other 
unofficially regarding SIG issues without the above 
constraints.)

	d.	LEADERSHIP--CHAIR.  The SIG will choose a 
chair based on consensus.  This chair will report on the 
SIG's work to the AIW chair.  The AIW rules currently 
specify that the SIG chair will serve upon approval of 
the AIW chair, and the SIG accepts that constraint while 
under the auspices of the AIW.

	e.	LEADERSHIP--EDITOR.  The SIG may choose to 
split the leadership responsibilities between a chair, 
for administrative duties, and an editor, for technical 
responsibility for the draft.  If split, the SIG will 
choose an editor based on consensus.

	f.	AGENDA.  A SIG agenda will be published before 
each meeting listing proposed discussion topics.  A 
final agenda will be made available prior to the meeting 
based on SIG membership input.

	g.	MINUTES.  Minutes of the meeting will be 
published within a month after each official meeting 
documenting decisions, priorities, and work assignments.

8.	AIW SPONSORSHIP.  This SIG was formed under the 
auspices of the Advanced Peer to Peer Networking (APPN) 
Implementers Workshop (AIW).

	a.	SHARED PURPOSE.  The group chose the AIW venue 
for its convenience for the majority of its vendors and 
commonalities in purpose.

	b.	AIW BENEFITS.  This SIG understands that the 
AIW provides several benefits to the SIG, including the 
Internet mail exploders, a meeting venue, draft standard 
publication, and legal support for standards 
development.

	c.	AIW RESPONSIBILITIES.  This SIG understands 
that, in return for receiving these benefits of AIW 
sponsorship, the SIG is bound by the current and future 
rules of the AIW.

	d.	AIW IS IBM SPONSORED.  This SIG understands 
that the AIW is an IBM-sponsored organization and that, 
although open to input from all interested parties, the 
AIW has not obligated itself to be run by a democratic 
process of AIW members.

	e.	NEW VENUE IS POSSIBLE.  Therefore, although 
this SIG is currently under the AIW venue and agrees to 
follow AIW rules while under its venue, the SIG may 
choose at some future time to reorganize under a new 
venue should the SIG decide that the AIW rules are 
incompatible with its purpose and goals.

	f.	AIW UNDERSTANDING OF SIG's RIGHT TO SECEDE.  
By accepting this charter, the AIW agrees that, should 
the SIG, at any time and for any reason, decide to 
reform itself under a sponsorship other than the AIW, 
that the SIG is under no legal or financial obligation 
to the AIW other than such specific agreements as shall 
have been made at that time by the AIW and the SIG.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 01:05:20 PDT

Louise -

    My comments are included below.  Good first shot.

    BTW, you have three 7.b.'s and two 7.c.'s :-).

Regards,
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Wayne Clark
cisco Systems, Inc.
[email-masked]
415/688-4627

>DRAFTCharter--Data Link Switching (DLSw) Special 

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>work is RFC 1434 as published by IBM in July 1993.  

    Minor nit ... it was March 1993.

    In this section, you might want to capture what was stated with
    regards to the DLSw standard and the DLSw implementation as found on
    the IBM 6611 per Roy Dixon (ref: Connect SIGlet email, 13 Sep 93).

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>publication, and legal support for standards 

    What is the legal support for standards development?  I know Steve
    Joyce alluded to it during the last DLSw SIG meeting but I'm 
    unclear as to what this support is.

>AIW has not obligated itself to be run by a democratic 

    Hmmm ... real interesting!  This isn't what is being implied by IBM in
    the press.

>have been made at that time by the AIW and the SIG.

    IMHO, these last 2 sections must remain in the DLSw SIG charter at
    all costs.