[Foundation] JEEPs Proposal
Rahul Dave
rahul at reno.cis.upenn.edu
Wed May 23 18:59:47 CDT 2001
JEEP: 2
Title: List and charter of Jabber SIGS
Version: $Revision: 1.2 $
Author: rahul at mozdev.org (Rahul Dave, aka tig, modifying from Mathew Johnston)
Primary JIG: General
Secondary JIGS: None
Status: Draft
Type: Informational
Created: 33-May-2001
Post-History: 23-May-2001
This document modified from the post,
http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/members/2001-May/000116.html
by Mathew Johnston. Matthew, please give me permission to add you as an author
if you agree, and I can also give you CVS access.
What is a JIG?
A JIG is a Jabber Interest Group. The notion is an umbrella structure
to co-ordinate the work of the Jabber Foundation, Jabber.org, and
Jabber development.
JIG Structure and Resources
Each JIG will get its own web page and forum-mailing list. This mailing list
may or may not be used as a development space (there are already other spaces),
but will be used for structural discussions and announcements.
Each JIG will have a head, a volunteer, or by election if there is more than
one volunteer, and by BFDL choice is there is an election tie. There will be
a similarly elected second official whose job is to communicate to the general
JIG and maintain the JIG resources. The head may adopt this role if there is no
volunteer. The job of this second person is to make sure that the
General JIG hears about what's going on inside of the JIG
(without assuming that the general JIG knows anything specific about
the informing JIG's area of expertise). For example, the General JIG
should not be told anything that a general member may not understand
without serious research.
List of JIGS(proposed):
General/Foundation Organization
This JIG will co-ordinate other JIGs by posting general news about
the work that each JIG is doing. More communication means less chance
of duplicated effort, or incompatable proposals being created.
This JIG has a third official, the JEEP maintainer. Rahul Dave has
volunteered to do this presently, but this position is set up in the
same way as the other two.
Also, this JIG should handle publication of other foundation
related issues.
Infrastructure
This JIG would manage the jabber.org website and servers, as well
as any other infrastructure relating to the foundation. This JIG
would be responsible for managing mailing lists, keeping the jabber
server on jabber.org running, managing the web site, etc. This JIG
would likely request funds from the business JIG for server upgrades
things like that.
Business and Standards Compliance JIG (merged by rahul)
This JIG would manage the business interests of the foundation.
It would handle finance (donations, expendatures, etc), marketing,
trademark management, legal issues, corporation stuff.
This JIG would also be responsible for evaluating products and issuing
'Jabber Compliant' label authorization for validating products.
This JIG also decides what Jabber compliance actually is and
makes sure that everyone else knows too (documentation).
Security, Auth, and Privacy
This JIG would concentrate on finding possible security problems
in the Jabber protocol, and may also (if there is sufficient
expertise) inspect server and client implementations for security
problems. This JIG would likely propose protocol changes to the
protocol development JIG and recommend default settings or
implementation changes to client and server JIGs. This group would
work on authentication, authorization, encryption, signing, and
privacy issues.
Standard Development (changed from protocol devel)
This JIG would be responsible for inspecting all standard change
proposals and even comming up with their own standards for protocol
changes. They would use the JEEP process.
This JIG should also document the standard as a JEEP and maintain that
documentation, as well as provide the reference implementation.
This should be the main(changed from only) party permitted to bring protocol
change proposals infront of the general membership as this is the
party that would be most qualified to make such
inspections.
As a strawman lets put middleware presently under this JIG: SOAP over
jabber protocol, jabber standard using SOAP vocab, XMLRPC, etc. There
is interest in a general MVC arch, message queue's, filtering using rules
and routes, JAM, etc, so we might want to move this to a separate JIG so
as to not burden this JIG
Server, Protocol, and Transport Interests (merged by rahul)
This JIG should discuss server issues... propose new server
related features or protocols to the protocol JIG. Developers
may also try to come up with some definition of what a jabber server
should hopefully support. Also, maybe try to define a common
configuration file format so that servers can be interchanged, etc.
Interest in new transports would also be discussed in this JIG
Client Interests
This JIG should discuss client issues... propose common client
feature sets for different applications, or propose end user
facilitating standards to the standard JIG.
References and Footnotes
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