Network Working Group Jean-Francois C. Morfin Internet-Draft Intlnet Intended status: For information February 28, 2012 Expires: August 28, 2012 Intelligent Use Task Force draft-iucg-iutf-tasks-00.txt Abstract The Intelligent Use Task Force (IUTF) has responsibility for organizing Dedicated Interest Groups (DIG) to research, document and validate solutions in the area of Intelligent Use Interfaces (IUI) between the various components of the whole digital ecosystem (WDE), the resulting intelligent global network (IGNet), the diversity of on-line facilitation services that their IUI and IGNet may bring to people and machines. This document describes the guidelines and procedures for the formation, operations, experimentations and publications of IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups and their internal and external relations with other SDOs (Standardization and Documentation Organizations). Its publication as an IETF Draft is part of the IUCG liaison. 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This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Table of Contents 1. Introduction................................................... 4 1.1. IUTF Mission............................................. 4 1.2. IUTF Organization........................................ 4 1.3. IUTF Stewardship......................................... 5 1.4. IUTF participating Members............................... 6 2. Terminology.................................................... 6 3. The IUTF deliverables.......................................... 6 3.1. WISPs.................................................... 7 4. IUTF culture................................................... 7 4.1. IUTF Ethics.............................................. 7 4.2. Multiconsensus........................................... 8 5. IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups................................. 9 6. DIG Formation................................................. 10 6.1. Criteria for formation.................................. 11 6.2. Charter................................................. 12 6.2.1. Dedicated Interest Group Name..................... 12 6.2.2. Chair(s).......................................... 12 6.2.3. Online resources (cybship)........................ 12 6.2.4. Membership Policy................................. 13 6.2.5. Description of Dedicated Interest Group........... 13 7. Dedicated Interest Group Operance............................. 13 7.1. IUTF Chair.............................................. 14 7.2. IUSG Member............................................. 15 7.3. Dedicated Interest Group Chair.......................... 15 7.3.1. Staff roles....................................... 15 7.3.1.1. Ensuring DIG process and content management. 15 7.3.1.2. Moderate the DIG email list and wiki........ 15 7.3.1.3. Face-to-face and online formal meetings..... 16 7.3.2. Communicate the results of meetings............... 16 7.3.3. Distribute the work............................... 16 7.4. Document development.................................... 16 7.5. Document publication.................................... 16 Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 8. Dedicated Interest Group Adminance............................ 16 8.1. Dedicated Interest Group Editor/Secretary............... 17 8.2. Position Clusters....................................... 17 9. DIG Revision.................................................. 17 10. Specialized Meetings......................................... 18 10.1. Meeting planning....................................... 18 10.2. Meeting venue.......................................... 18 10.3. Meeting management..................................... 19 11. Security considerations...................................... 19 11.1. Joint Security Reflection.............................. 19 11.2. President"s WDE Presentation and Tutorial.............. 19 12. IANA considerations.......................................... 20 13. Acknowledgments.............................................. 20 Requirements notation The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 1. Introduction The IUTF utilizes and co-documents the ALFA model of intercommunications in their integrality (MICI) that respects the normality as documented in the ISO standards and identifies five main strata of human intercommunication in the WDE (whole digital ecosystem): * interlocutability: use of semiotic protocols: languages, gesture, and movements. * interconnectibility: basic use of the bandwidth: telephone, TV, radio and quantum. * interoperationality: value-added use of this bandwidth: such as the Internet * interintelligibility: extended services of intelligent interface: such as the Internet+ * intercomprehensibility: semantic use of intelligent links: such as the Intersem of ideas. These strata are, or must be, specifically documented as piles of independent layers and complementary functions. The IUTF recognizes and wish to liaise in each stratum with those organizations that cooperate with their standardization, documentation, and stewardship. 1.1. IUTF Mission The Intelligent Use Task Force (IUTF) has responsibility for organizing Dedicated Interest Groups (DIG) to research, document and validate solutions in the interintelligibility area of: * Intelligent Use Interfaces between the various components of the whole digital ecosystem (WDE), * the resulting intelligent global network (IGNET), * the diversity of facilitation on-line services these IUI and IGNET may bring to the people and their machines. 1.2. IUTF Organization IUTF activities are organized into Dedicated Interest Groups. This Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 document describes the guidelines and procedures for the formation, operations, experimentations, relations, and publications of IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups. It describes the relationship between IUTF participants, Dedicated Interest Groups, the Intelligent Use Steering Group (IUSG), the IUse Group of Operance, Governance, Constituance and Adminance (cf. below) related organizations, and the SDOs of other technologies through Intelligent Use Contributing Groups (IUCGs). The basic duties of IUTF participants, including the IUTF Chair, Dedicated Interest Group Chairs and IUSG members are defined. The IUTF is composed of a number of focused, long-term, open Dedicated Interest Groups. These groups work on topics related to the architecture, protocol, applications, functions and technology of Intelligent Use Interfaces between digital technologies, their own networking and their underlying meta-data registries system (MDRS). Dedicated Interest Groups are expected to have a stable, diversified, long term membership of researchers, engineers and lead users. Participation is by individual contributors, rather than by representatives of organizations. 1.3. IUTF Stewardship The IUTF is managed by the IUTF Chair in consultation with the Intelligent Use Steering Group (IUSG). The IUSG membership includes the IUTF Chair, the chairs of the various Dedicated Interest Group and possibly other individuals ("members at large") from the IUse Group and the IUse community. The IUTF Chair is co-opted on a yearly and indefinitely renewable basis by the IUSG. The Dedicated Interest Group chairs are appointed as part of the formation of Dedicated Interest Groups (as detailed below) and confirmed or renewed on a yearly basis. The IUSG members at large are chosen by the IUTF Chair in consultation with the rest of the IUSG. In addition to managing the Dedicated Interest Groups, the IUSG may from time to time hold topical workshops focusing on areas of importance to the evolution of the IUI, the IGNET, and the MDRS, or more general concertation workshops related to the IGNET and the IUse Group gathering the IUSG approved short-term and contractual operance, mid-term and international governance, long-term technological constituance, and permanent technical adminance organizations. Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 1.4. IUTF participating Members Except for "members at large" of the IUSG, there is no general participation in the IUTF, only individual participation in specific Dedicated Interest Groups. The IUTF was initially a branch of the Intlnet non-profit association that was created in 1978. It will be declared a French non-profit association on its own once its main mailing list has reached the threshold of one hundred active participants. 2. Terminology The document uses: "SHALL", "WILL", "MUST" and "REQUIRED" where it describes steps in the process that are essential. It uses: "SUGGESTED", "SHOULD" and "MAY" where guidelines are described that are not essential, but are strongly recommended to help smooth Dedicated Interest Group operation. The terms "they", "them" and "their" are used in this document as third-person singular pronouns. This conventional wording will be consistently used throughout the IUTF deliverables. The use of "IS/ARE" will reflect those aspects that cannot be modified by the IUTF. This includes the ITU and IETF "MUST", "SHALL", "WILL", and "REQUIRED", and the "MUST", "SHALL", "WILL", and "REQUIRED" of the IUTF when documenting layers above the layers that are documented by the ITU and the IETF. 3. The IUTF deliverables The task of the IUTF is to produce high quality, relevant technical and engineering documents, under the form of maintained wiki documents (MWD), that will sustain the facilitation of the man/machine relations of our "anthrobotical" information and help people more adequately design, use, manage and master their digital resources. These MWD will be presented as permanently and consistently maintained semantically linked wiki outputs associated to the MDRS metadata registries. They will deliver concerted advises, best current practices, experimentation reports, information and intellition under formally finalized and approved presentations wiki documents (MWD), individually introduced and edited IUSG approved Individual Wiki Pages (IWP), and on-going IUse working wiki pages (IUWW). The MWD/IWP/MDRS form the technical distributed and duplicable referent suite of the Internet+ community. It SHOULD strive to stay Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 interoperable with the ISO 3166 and 639 standards and with the IANA Registries. MWD/IUWW can be initiated by an individual in a DIG, by a DIG as a whole with a designated Editor, or by a position clique within a DIG. This last case should be the usual way to start working towards a multiconsensus. The designated author(s) need not include the group Chair(s). The review may either be done by the IUTF Chair, the IUSG, or an independent reviewer selected by the IUTF Chair. The MWD status will be accepted by the IUSG consensus. 3.1. WISPs IUTF business is carried by mailing lists and supported by Wiki Information and Service Pages (WISP). For example, before a meeting, a WISP (and appendixes) should publish all relevant documents and keep maintained the agenda of meetings, and its minutes a few days later on. It will be helpful to provide on-line references for the electronic mailing list accompanying possible debate. 4. IUTF culture Ultimately aiming at the facilitation of intercomprehension, the IUTF culture is based upon a distributed multicentric and ubiquitous vision of the WDE where every person is the center of his/her comprehension of the world and the universe is the dynamic interface of all these comprehensions. It can be summarized as "multiconsensus and living mode" as compared with the IETF "rough consensus and running code". The whole challenge of the IUCGs as liaisons at the different SDOs will precisely be to translate the implications and requirements of this vision at their respective layers. 4.1. IUTF Ethics The IUTF adheres to open standard oriented ethical principles, some of which it shares in continuity with the IETF and other SDOs: * Open process - any interested person can participate in the work, know what is being decided, and make his or her voice heard on the issue. Part of this principle is the commitment to making documents, DIG mailing lists, Wikis, attendance lists, and meeting minutes publicly available online. * Technical competence - the issues on which the IUTF delivers are Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 issues where the IUTF has the needed competence and that the IUTF is willing to listen to technically competent input from any source. Technical competence also means that the IUTF output is expected to proceed from sound engineering and scientific principles, open agorical considerations, and a consistent architectony. * Volunteer Core - IUTF participants and leadership are to be those who come to the IUTF because they want to do work that furthers the IUTF's ambition of "making WDE use intelligently facilitated". * Multi-consensus and living mode. IUTF propositions are to be based on the combined scientist, engineering, and lead user judgment of its participants and their real-world experimentation and ongoing feedback. * Public comments. The public is invited to send comments to the wikipage associated talk page and mail address and to participate in general discussion on the related DIG mailing list. 4.2. Multiconsensus The basis for multiconsensus is the need for the interintelligibility between different technologies and people logics that is to emerge from IUTF debates. It proceeds from what IUTF calls the agoric. Where: * logic is the rules of reason dealing with information (data that were ignored) and the path to formal conclusions, * agoric (from Greek agora) is the methods of intelligence dealing with intellition (data links that were unknown) and the evolution to acceptable emergences. A multiconsensus is formed when there are different position clusters, which demonstrate that they reached an internal documentation consensus that is fully understood by the other position clusters, and all the position clusters were able to find a consensus on the way to document and compare all these positions, and on the possibility or the inability to interface them under some general or local conditions. The multiconsensus formula permits IUTF to simultaneously present seemingly conflicting solutions the sets of which may emerge as interoperable and able to support new living modes of separated subsidiary operations. Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 Other areas of application of multiconsensus are: * multilinguistics, which is understood as the discipline of the cybernetics of the linguistic diversity, considering all the languages and cultures as technically and interactively equal in people use and applications support. * architectonics: facilitated intercomprehension calls for cross-referentialization between the facilitating processes. It can only be based upon polynymy (synonymy in different languages or perceptions). Documenting polynymy demands multiconsensus. * experimentation: the IUTF encourages intertesting, i.e. using the Internet+ as its own test bed. The purpose of experimentation is to review propositions in real life and observe how their agoric scales (fom a scaling threshold to the next) in preserving the underlying logics or if new rules emerge. A scaling threshold is when experimentation shows there is a change due to the scale. In a more general manner, it is expected that multiconsensus should help cross-pollenizing positions and lead to more structured and robust emergent architectures protected by their intricate simplicity (RFC 3439) from a commercially or politically influenced technical bias (cf. RFC 3869). To be able to consider the largest number of different needs and to focus on the interoperability of the proposed solutions through a multiconsensus is considered as a necessary IUTF application of the precautionary principle: no one has to take the risk of an error in trying to speak on behalf of those who are to be interfaced or to master the other technologies that are to be interfaced. More generally, the IUTF will be interested in exploring a theory of intellition and agoric systems able to assist in dealing with the application of the principle of subsidiarity to its network architecture. 5. IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups The IUTF atom is the Dedicated Interest Group (DIG). Dedicated Interest Groups are the activity centers in the IUTF. The leading DIG is the IUSG. IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups are formed to encourage research, common work and experimentation, documentation and permanent Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 monitoring in areas of importance to the evolution of Intelligent use and digital facilitation. Clearly, anyone may conduct such tasks, whether or not they are members of a Dedicated Interest Group. The expectation is that by sponsoring Dedicated Interest Groups, the IUTF can foster cross-organizational concertation, help to create "critical mass" in important areas, add to the visibility and impact of the work and conclusions, maintain a comprehensive structured documentation, and foster adequate operance, maintenance, constituance, and adminance cooperation. IUTF Dedicated Interest Groups may have open or closed memberships. Limited membership may be advantageous to the formation of the long-term working relationships that are critical to successful collaborative research and for time limited experimentation projects. However, limited membership must be used with care and sensitivity to avoid any unnecessary fragmentation of the work of the research community. Allowing limited membership in multiple Dedicated Interest Groups working on the same topic may be a way to more easily reach multiconsensuses, in particular when the different technologies and visions that are involved are well established with different objectives that they have to multiconsensually document. The work of the IUSG is expected to be marked by informality. The goal is to encourage and foster valuable contributions by members who are engaged in other research, engineering, and business activities, and not to add burdensome bureaucracy to the endeavor. 6. DIG Formation A Dedicated Interest Group is typically created to address a research area related to the Intelligent Use of the Whole Digital Ecosystem. Dedicated Interest Groups have the stable long-term and diversified membership that is needed to promote the development of collaboration and teamwork in exploring new issues and listening to participating or not end users. Participation is by individual contributors, rather than by representatives of organizations. A Dedicated Interest Group may be established at the initiative of an individual or group of individuals. Anyone interested in creating an IUTF Dedicated Interest Group must submit a charter for the proposed group to the IUTF Chair along with a list of proposed founding members. The charter will be reviewed by the IUSG after being published for comments by the IUse community. If approved, the charter is placed on the IUTF website and receives Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 10] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 an IUTF wikipage and talk page and is advised to set-up a mailing list. 6.1. Criteria for formation In determining whether it is appropriate to create a Dedicated Interest Group, the IUTF Chair, the IUSG, and the IUse community will consider several issues: * Is the area that the Dedicated Interest Group plans to address clear and relevant for the IUse community? * Will the formation of the Dedicated Interest Group foster work that would not be done otherwise? Membership drawn from more than a single institution, more than a single country, and so on, is to be encouraged. * Do the Dedicated Interest Group's activities overlap with those of another Dedicated Interest Group? If so, it may still be appropriate to create the Dedicated Interest Group, but this question must be considered carefully since subdividing efforts often dilutes the available technical expertise. In such a case, a joint Dedicated Interest Group may be created and a common charter on the targeted area of a multi-consensus approved. * Is there sufficient interest and expertise in the Dedicated Interest Group's topic with at least several people willing to expend the effort that is likely to produce significant results over time? Dedicated Interest Groups require considerable effort, including the management of the Dedicated Interest Group process, editing of Dedicated Interest Group documents, and contribution to the wikipage text. The IETF/IRTF experience suggests that these roles cannot all be handled by one person; at least four or five active participants are typically required. To help in this determination, a proposal to create a Dedicated Interest Group should include a list of potential charter members. The IUse community review will help determining the proposed Dedicated Interest Group overlaps and complementarities with other Dedicated Interest Groups or Projected Groups and the consistency with the WDE architectony and IUTF architecture. 6.2. Charter Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 11] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 The formation of a Dedicated Interest Group requires a charter, which is initially negotiated between a prospective Dedicated Interest Group Chair and the IUTF Chair. When the prospective Chair and the IUTF Chair are satisfied with the charter form and content, it becomes the basis for forming a Dedicated Interest Group. A charter is a contract between a Dedicated Interest Group and the IUTF to conduct research, evaluation, documentation, and monitoring in the designated area. Charters may be renegotiated periodically to reflect changes to the current status of the art, participants' thinking or position clusters, or goals of the Dedicated Interest Group. An IUTF Dedicated Interest Group charter comprises five sections: 6.2.1. Dedicated Interest Group Name A Dedicated Interest Group name should be reasonably descriptive or identifiable. Additionally, the group shall define an acronym (maximum 8 printable ASCII characters) to reference the group in the IUTF directories, mailing lists, websites, and general documents. The name and acronym must not conflict with any IUTF names and acronyms, nor - if possible - with IETF, IRTF, W3C, etc. names and acronyms unless for cooperation purposes. 6.2.2. Chair(s) The Dedicated Interest Group may have one or two Chair(s) to perform the administrative functions of the group. The IUTF email address(es) of the Chair(s) shall be published. 6.2.3. Online resources (cybship) Each Dedicated Interest Group shall have an address (possibly the Chair's) for the members of the Internet community to send queries regarding the Dedicated Interest Group. For instance, for requests to join the group. A Dedicated Interest Group, whether limited membership or open, will have an "interest" Internet mailing list open to all interested parties. This list is used for an open discussion of the issues and the announcements of the results as they become available. Included should be the address to which an interested party sends a subscription request for the interest list and the procedures to Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 12] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 follow when subscribing, and the location of the interest mailing list archive. It is expected that a Dedicated Interest Group also has a mailing list limited to its members on which a substantial part of the work of a Dedicated Interest Group is likely to be conducted via e-mail. 6.2.4. Membership Policy The Charter must define the membership policy (whether open or limited), and the procedure to apply for membership in the group. While limited membership is permitted, it is in no way encouraged or required. 6.2.5. Description of Dedicated Interest Group The focus and intent of the group shall be set forth briefly. By reading this section alone, an individual should be able to decide whether this group is relevant to their own work. The first paragraph must give a brief summary of the Dedicated Interest area, basis, goal(s), and approach(es) planned for the Dedicated Interest Group. This paragraph will frequently be used as an overview of the Dedicated Interest Group's effort. To facilitate the evaluation of the intended work and to provide ongoing guidance to the Dedicated Interest Group, the charter shall describe the proposed research and shall discuss the objectives and expected impact with respect to the IUTF architectony and respective architecture. 7. Dedicated Interest Group Operance Dedicated Interest Groups are autonomous and each determines most of the details of its own operation with respect to session participation, reaching closure, norms of behavior, etc. During the research phase, the multiconsensus of the group is not required. Rather, the measure of success is the quality and impact of the research results. A number of procedural questions and issues will arise over time, and it is the function of the Dedicated Interest Group Chair to manage the group process, keeping in mind that the overall purpose of the group is to make progress towards realizing the Dedicated Interest Group's goals and objectives. Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 13] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 There are a few hard and fast rules on organizing or conducting Dedicated Interest Group activities, but a set of guidelines and practices have evolved over time at IETF and IRTF that have proven successful. These external points of experience are listed here, with the actual choices that are typically determined by the Dedicated Interest Group members and the Chair. 7.1. IUTF Chair The IUTF Chair is responsible for ensuring that Dedicated Interest Groups produce coherent, coordinated, architecturally consistent, and timely output as a contribution to the overall evolution of the Intelligent Use area. In addition to the detailed tasks related to Dedicated Interest Groups outlined below, the IUTF Chair may also from time to time arrange for topical workshops to be attended by the IUSG and perhaps other experts in the field. When required by the situation, in particular during the start-up and crisis time, the Chair may unilaterally decide and have his/her decisions reviewed when the situation has stabilized. This includes the creation of new DIGs. With the assistance of the IUSG, the IUTF Chair: * monitors the range of activities. This may include encouraging the formation of Dedicated Interest Groups directly, rather than waiting for proposals from IUTF participants. * coordinates the work done by the various Dedicated Interest Groups. * reports on IUTF progress to the IUse community via the IUTF and the IUse community wikis. * tracks and manages the progress of the various Dedicated Interest Groups with the aid of a regular status report on the documents and accomplishments from the Dedicated Interest Group Chairs. The resulting reports are made available to the community at large at regular intervals. This requires considerable care and feeding, which can be arranged through a secretariat organized by the IUSG and benefiting from the efforts of those participants filling specific functional roles. Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 14] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 7.2. IUSG Member Members of the IUSG are responsible for advising the IUTF Chair on the chartering of new Dedicated Interest Groups and other matters relating to the smooth operation of the IUTF. Dedicated Interest Group chairs are members of the IUSG.. 7.3. Dedicated Interest Group Chair The Dedicated Interest Group Chair is concerned with making forward progress in the areas under investigation, and has wide discretion in the conduct of his Dedicated Interest Group's business. The Chair must ensure that a number of tasks are performed, either directly or by others assigned to the tasks. This encompasses, at the very least, the following: 7.3.1. Staff roles As for the IUSG, Dedicated Interest Groups require considerable care and feeding. In addition to general participation, successful Dedicated Interest Groups benefit from the efforts of participants filling specific functional roles. 7.3.1.1. Ensuring DIG process and content management The Chair has the ultimate responsibility for ensuring that a Dedicated Interest Group achieves forward progress. For some Dedicated Interest Groups, this can be accomplished by having the Chair perform all the management-related activities. In other Dedicated Interest Groups -- particularly those with large or divisive participation -- it is helpful to allocate process and/or secretarial functions to other participants. Process management pertains strictly to the style of Dedicated Interest Group interaction and not to its content. The secretarial function encompasses the preparation of minutes, and possibly the editing of group-authored documents. 7.3.1.2. Moderate the DIG email list and wiki The Chair should attempt to ensure that the discussions on this list are relevant and that they do not devolve to "flame" attacks or rat-hole into technical trivia. The Chair should make sure that discussions on the list and updates of the wikipages are summarized and that the outcome is well documented (to avoid repetition). 7.3.1.3. Face-to-face and online formal meetings Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 15] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 The Chair should plan and announce meetings well in advance. (See section on Meeting Planning for procedures.) 7.3.2. Communicate the results of meetings The Chair and/or Secretary must ensure that the minutes of a meeting are taken and published on the DIG's wiki. 7.3.3. Distribute the work It is expected that all Dedicated Interest Group participants will actively contribute to the work of the group. Dedicated Interest Group membership is expected to be a long-term commitment by a set of motivated members of the research community. Of course, at any given time more of the work is likely to be done by a few participants with particular interests, set of skills, and ideas. It is the task of the Chair to motivate enough experts to allow for a fair distribution of the workload. 7.4. Document development Dedicated Interest Groups produce documents, and documents need authors. However, the authorship of papers related to the work of a Dedicated Interest Group is one of the primary reasons that researchers become members and, therefore, finding motivated authors should not be a problem. It is up to the Dedicated Interest Group to decide the authorship of papers resulting from Dedicated Interest Group activities. In particular, authorship by the entire group is not required. 7.5. Document publication The Chair and/or Secretary will work with the RFC Editor to ensure that documents that are to be published as RFCs conform to the RFC publication requirements and to coordinate any editorial changes suggested by the RFC Editor. 8. Dedicated Interest Group Adminance The IUTF adminance is ensured through mailing lists and wiki portals and pages. Dedicated Interest Group manages their own set of pages. The IUTF directory of (existing and projected) DIGs permits to obtain a permanently maintained plex of the digital Intelligent Use area. Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 16] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 This wiki will gather: * the charters * the IUSW: Stable WikiPage * the IUWW: IUse Working Wikipages * the IUMW: various types of IU Management Wikipages as listed in the Dedicated Interest Group Wikipage. 8.1. Dedicated Interest Group Editor/Secretary Taking the minutes and editing jointly-authored Dedicated Interest Group documents is often performed by a specifically-designated participant or set of participants. 8.2. Position Clusters Multiconsensus is formalized between position clusters. Their administration will be organized by a facilitator that is accepted by the DIG Chair. They will be allocated wikipages. In order to preserve transparency and mutual understanding, it is not advised to create cluster mailing lists, except when the amount of work of a cluster or the tension between clusters may justify it. 9. DIG Revision If, at some point, it becomes evident that a Dedicated Interest Group is not making progress in the research areas defined in its charter, or fails to regularly report the results of its research to the community, the IUTF Chair can, in consultation with the Group Chair and Members, either: 1. Require that the group recharters to refocus on a different set of problems, 2. Request that the group choose (a) new Chair(s), 3. Merge groups, or 4. Disband the group. If the Dedicated Interest Group, or one of its members, disagrees with anIUTF Chair's choice, it/he/she may appeal to the IUSG. If Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 17] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 it/he/she still disagree with the IUSG response, it/he/she may initiate an IUse community controversy to help everyone better understand the community expectations. This controversy will be closed by a multi-consensus statement of the IUTF Chair, the IUSG, and of the Dedicated Interest Group Chair or of the disagreeing party. The final decision of the IUTF Chair prevails. 10. Specialized Meetings 10.1. Meeting planning For coordinated, structured Dedicated Interest Group interactions, the Chair must publish to the group mailing list a draft agenda well in advance of the actual meeting. The agenda needs to contain at least: * The items for discussion; * The estimated time necessary per item; and * A clear indication of what documents the participants will need to read before the meeting in order to be well prepared. A Dedicated Interest Group will conduct much of its business via its electronic mail distribution list(s) and wikiset. It is also likely to meet periodically to accomplish those things that are better achieved in more interactive meetings, such as brainstorming, heated altercations, etc. Meetings may be scheduled as a telephone conference, a video teleconference, or face-to-face (physical) meetings. It is strongly encouraged that all Dedicated Interest Group meetings be recorded in written minutes, to keep those members informed who were not present and the community at large and to document the proceedings for present and future members. These minutes should include the agenda for the meeting, an account of the high points of the discussion, and a list of attendees. Unless the Dedicated Interest Group chair decides otherwise, the minutes should be sent to the interest group and made available through the corresponding wikiset. 10.2. Meeting venue Each Dedicated Interest Group will determine the balance of email and face-to-face meetings that is appropriate for making progress on its Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 18] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 goals. Electronic mail permits the easiest and most affordable participation; face-to-face meetings often enable a better focus, more productive debate, and enhanced working relationships. 10.3. Meeting management The challenge to managing Dedicated Interest Group meetings is to balance the need for the consideration of the various issues, opinions, and approaches against the need to allow forward progress. The Dedicated Interest Group, as a whole, has the final responsibility for striking this balance. 11. Security considerations The IUTF is to help IUsers protect their cybships at the presentation stratum mainly through architectural options, and also through cultural influence and protocol documentation. For this, it will adopt a strong "ethitechnical" approach consisting in influencing the architecture, design, and standards in order to retain an ethics, security, and privacy respecting use that is technically simpler, cheaper, and more rewarding. 11.1. Joint Security Reflection The Internet+ architectural framework has direct influence on the whole digital ecosystem's homeostasis, behavior, stability, etc. and on its use. This certainly has impacts on military, industrial, economic, and cultural issues. This is why a joint reflection with governments and national, business, civil society, international, and standardization organizations is undoubtedly necessary. This should be organized at the IUSG level. 11.2. President"s WDE Presentation and Tutorial There is a general agreement that some propositions of law demonstrate a deep misunderstanding of the WDE (whole digital ecosystem) in general, of the Legacy Internet in particular, and certainly of the Internet technology as plainly embodied in the Internet+ architectural framework. There is, therefore, an urgent need for an Internet/Internet+/Intersem pedagogical effort towards the education of the world's high-level decision makers themselves (not only their staff). Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 19] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 The IUTF will, therefore, engage in the preparation and in the maintenance of a joint "President's WDE Presentation and Tutorial" (PWDEPT), aiming at providing cabinet ministers, law makers, top executives, researchers in other disciplines, opinion leaders, and press a personal tutorial of reference for comprehending the WDE, its main components, mutual interactions, and foreseeable or possible incremental, disruptive, and fundamental evolution. A quarterly update mail should keep them updated on the technological evolution. Online annexes (under a wiki format) should provide the necessary references as well as a multilingual glossary. This PWDEPT should be the result of a multiconsensual work within the WSIS IGF framework. It should be planned to be authored in common by all the SDOs, governments, Internet providers, civil society, chambers of commerce, corporations, associations, societies, international organizations, R&D and lead users that would like to participate on a neutral information basis. It should be multilingual, at least published and maintained in French and English, and as much as possible in the main UN languages. Participants will be provided one page in order to introduce themselves and provide clarifications on their own positions. For profit participants will be asked to participate in the costs of the secretariat and site hosting. 12. IANA considerations The IUTF model considers five communications strata, which are made of their own specialized layers. The principle of a layer is to serve the layer above it in using the input received from the layer below it, all in accordance with its own rules, protocols, and parameters. The IUTF respects and uses the IANA as the referent of the Internet layers and includes its tables in its own MDRS for internal consistency. 13. Acknowledgments The text of this document heavily draughts on the texts of IETF RFC 2014 by Abel Weinrib and Jon Postel (IRTF description) and RFC 3935 (IETF mission) by Harald Alvestrand, the IUTF aiming at reproducing their time and success proven working style and organization in a manner adapted to its own architectural layers, diversity of contributors, interfaced technologies, and particular implication in fostering IUse community services. Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 20] Internet-Draft Tasks of the IUTF February 2012 Author's address Jean-Francois C. Morfin INTLNET 120 chemin des Crouzettes Saint-Vincent de Barbeyrargues 34730 Saint-Vincent de Barbeyrargues France Phone: (33.9) Email: jefsey@jefsey.com URI: http://intlnet.org Morfin Expires August 28, 2012 [Page 21]