GGF Process Working Group
Minutes 12/16/2004

Attendees:

Tony Genovese
Cees de Laat
Steve Crumb
Greg Newby
Beth Plale

Agenda
1. GFD.1 GGF Document Series: Dane and Greg 
2. GFD.2 GGF structure: Steve 
3. IP: David
4. NOMCOM-Beth Plale

Discussion

1. GFD.1 GGF Document Series: Dane and Greg 
No significant progress since the last draft.  Greg brought up the issue of adding a template for GWD's with 
instructions for writing each of the sections and including:  a) completing references and b) writing a security section
.  Greg indicated that there is a very good RFC in the IETF on writing a security section in an RFC.  It's highly 
applicable to GGF documents.  Greg and Dane will continue to work on the draft with hopes that a new one will be 
available in mid-January.

2. GFD.2 GGF structure: Steve 

Steve discussed the scope of the Group Structure document which was agreed to be the "what" and "why" of groups and 
areas.  Group agreed to remove the "obviously dynamic" information about group and area numbers and names.  The group 
agreed to the proposal to allow a definition of design teams (Cees to provide text from IETF RFC) but not to include a 
further breakdown of Research Groups (community and application focused RGs).  Group agreed to allow for "prescribed 
practices" (replacement for "legal requirements" in first draft) for group chairs. These practices are the few tasks 
that GGF depends on group chairs to do such as acknowledgement of the IP policy at the start of each meeting, collection
 of names of attendees and contributors, and minutes of each meeting.  There will be reference to a "central repository"
 for this information, but not a specific reference to GridForge.  It was also agreed that a similar section should be 
written for prescribed practices for Area Directors.
Steve agreed to provide a next draft by mid-January.

3. IP: David

Not on the call.  

4. NOMCOM  Beth Plale indicated that she will have a next draft by mid-January.