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Architectural Manoeuvres in the Dark

This article discusses the role of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) in providing architectural input to the IETF community, its challenges in promoting architectural guidance, and integrating its work with the rest of the IETF process.

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Architectural Manoeuvres in the Dark

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  1. Architectural Manoeuvres in the Dark Leslie Daigle

  2. The IAB: truths • Charter: RFC2850 • Provides architectural input to the community • workshops & reports • topical RFCs • input on BoFs/WG charters (for IESG consideration) • Oversees the IRTF mostly by appointing IRTF Chair, partly in reviewing proposed IRTF RGs • IAB does coordinate external liaisons/relationships, though day-to-day liaising happens where it needs to (e.g., WG/AD)

  3. The IAB: myths • the IAB is not chartered to manage the IESG • the IAB is not involved the IETF standards process administration, except hearing appeals of IESG Actions • IESG manage the IETF standards process • the IAB does not have power to approve/reject WG proposals • IESG approve/reject WG proposals

  4. Word on the street… 1. IETF & architecture • There are no roadmaps for areas or other large chunks of the architecture, just for WG efforts • Too little architectural guidance in the IETF • It is impossible to define a single architecture for the Internet

  5. Word on the street…2. darkness • Architectural decisions with IETF-wide impact don't get adequate community review • It's hard to get a discussion going when the IAB works on architectural considerations • Some consider IAB architectural guidelines/question to be "meddling" by "outsiders"

  6. High-level problem statements • How to scope out and describe architectural issues that are found? • How to do advance architectural work (without creating academic dogma)? • Integrating the IAB (an IETF resource) work with the rest of IETF process

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