FW: Announcement for change of sub-ip AD

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

FYI

           Harald, also trying to catch up before the IETF
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To: ietf-announce
Subject: Appointment of Alex Zinin as co-AD of the temporary
       sub-IP area

The IESG has asked Alex Zinin, routing co-AD, to take on the additional 
role of co-Area Director for the temporary sub-IP area.
He will be working with with Bert Wijnen, who is also co-AD of the 
Operations & Management area, and who has been Sub-IP AD since the 
inception of the area.

In November 2002, the IESG said the following about the Sub-IP area:

>  In this situation, the IESG has come to the following conclusion:
>
>  - We will NOT close the sub-IP area by March 2003.
>    We will instead encourage the WGs that we think are nearly finished
>    to finish up their work, work further with the architecture of the
>    "sub-IP" technologies, and, together with the participants, try to
>    find the optimal solutions for the management of the working groups.
>  - We will NOT ask for a new AD for the area. We will instead look at
>    the composition of the IESG after March, and determine then which
>    are the best ADs to take on the additional burden of shepherding
>    the sub-IP area.
>
>  The IESG will continue to evaluate the situation, based on community
>  input, and revisit the issue in March 2003. If the likely outcome is
>  that the area will have only 2 or 3 working groups by the end of 2003,
>  the IESG will propose a transition schedule for migrating unclosed
>  Working Groups and shutting down the area.
>  If there appears to be significant reason for expanding work in this
>  area, without going outside the boundaries of the areas for which the
>  IETF has traditionally been able to contribute significantly to, the
>  IESG may choose a different strategy at that time.

The IESG is still evaluating possible strategies for the Sub-IP area, and 
will continue these discussions at the IETF meeting in San Francisco.

We would like to extend our thanks to Scott Bradner for his efforts in 
managing the Sub-IP area from its inception to the present.

                       Harald Alvestrand
                        For the IESG