Proposal for two of three parts of the whoisfix charter

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine]

All,

This is familiar ground.

Joan Gargano chaired the Whois and Network Information Lookup Service (wnils)
Working Group, concluding in February, 1996, and producing rfc1834/5, 1923/4,
and 2957/8, the Whois++ set of memos. David Conrad chaired the Internet
Registry Evolution (ire) Working Group, closer in spirit to the current
Provisioning Registry Protocol (provreg) Working Group than this one, but
still a kindred spirit, concluding in January 1997. Linda Millington and Sri
Sataluri chaired the Integrated Directory Services (ids) Working Group, and
Patric Faltstrom and Roland Hedberg chaired the Common Indexing Protocol
(find), concluding in October 1998 and February 1999, respectively. Mark
Kosters and Scott Williamson RWhois Operational Development (rwhois) Working
Group, concluding in September 1998.

This list is not exhaustive.

What is required next is three parts:
- the boiler-plate -- people, roles, lists
- the charter: a tractible, useful in-scope problem statement,
and possibly also an out-of-scope statement
and (optionally) one or more initial documents
- goals and milestones

Here is what we propose for the first and last items, the boiler-plate and
the goals and milestones.

WHOISfix
--------
Patrick and Randy
In Body: subscribe
Archive: www.imc.org/whois
<insert here>
Sep 01 Working group agreement on the list of changes to pursue
Nov 01 Initial specification of these changes
Feb 02 Initial specification of these changes
Mar 02 Drafts submitted for consideration as Proposed Standard

I'm already sure that this schedule is too tight, but I do want to see this
activity conclude in '02, and with non-lamentable work-product. Lets get in
agreement with these two parts, the process bits, or an alternative, then
solve for substance.

I'm off on business (Montevideo ICANN) for a week, and then off to RatLand
(Disny World according to my spouse and 5 year old) until the 18th. I hope
to hear from the APNIC attendees as we fill in the blanks post-London, and
if there is anything relevant from the Montevideo ICANN meeting, I'll post
notes.

Cheers,
Eric