ips Charter news

[Black_David@emc.com]

Since it's been over a month since Pittsburgh, I thought
I'd provide an update on the ips draft charter status.  The
latest charter draft is now in the hands of the IESG/IAB
- aside from a bunch of editorial cleanups, there have
been two substantial changes since the version made
available before the Pittsburgh meeting: 

- The charter now envisions ips adopting a Technical
	Coordinator structure along the lines used in
	the issll WG.  Technical Coordinators would
	be initially selected by the co-chairs for
	iSCSI and FC-over-IP.  Among the things that
	this helps with is organizing parallel sessions
	at meetings to deal with protocol-specific items.
- The dates for completion of documents have been
	pushed back by approximately one IETF meeting.
	Many people thought the original dates were
	aggressive, nobody thought they were too
	lenient, hence the result.  If we meet the
	original dates, so much the better.

There may be more changes to come.

--David

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