Re: Rechartering the OpenPGP WG

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:45:39PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> Happy New Year everyone.
> 
> At the IETF in Vancouver last month Sam Hartman said that he'd
> welcome a rechartering discussion to allow us to continue to
> work.  So before I start writing up a charter and milestones,
> please pipe up if:
> 
> 1) You are working on a draft that you think should be in the WG
> 2) You are thinking of working on a draft in the near future
>    that you think should be in the WG
> 3) You have a working item topic that you'd like the WG to handle
>    but you're not working on a draft yet but would like to get
>    someone to work on.
> 
> Obviously #1 and #2 take significant precedence over #3.  In
> addition, please provide time estimates for how much work
> you suspect the draft will take (so we can set up appropriate
> WG milestones).
> 
> Please respond in the next week so I can collect the responses
> and work on an updated WG Charter.

I have the Camellia draft (new one coming in a few days - thanks to
everyone for all the comments), and Len Sassaman mentioned Whirlpool.
If the charter can be written that way, I think a good addition would
be a general statement about adding (or rejecting) new algorithms as
they come up.

David