Our featured guest for the Real World Co-Intelligence Community Call for October 2024 was Kaliya Young 'Identity Woman'.
Kaliya is a public interest technologist, known as Identity Woman. She has spent the last 20 years of her career focused on one thing: supporting the emergence of an identity layer of the internet that works for and empowers people. She spearheaded the use of Open Space Technology for unconferences in the tech industry and founded the Internet Identity Workshop.
Kaliya and her colleague Day Davis Waterbury used three pattern languages - including the CII Wise Democracy Pattern Language - to analyze the self-organising dynamics of the Internet Engineering Taskforce - the global network of tech engineers who continually evolve the Internet.
The IETF - a network of working groups owned by no one and located in no one place or organization - uses a form of rough consensus to make its momentous decisions and an innovative version of expertise-rich random selection to select members to its few leadership positions. The whole network adapts rapidly to changing conditions utilizing a vast, unique treasury of evolving organizational practices and principles.
0:00 Introduction and Welcome
8:00 Guest Speaker Introduction: Kaliya Young aka Identity Woman
10:45 IETF’s Role and Structure
18:30 Origins of IETF and RFC System
25:10 Rough Consensus and Running Code - Discussion on how the IETF achieves rough consensus, its advantages, and cultural norms
32:00 Internal Governance: Nomcom and Area Directors
37:50 IETF’s Cultural Practices and Norms
44:30 Transparency and Documentation - How IETF’s transparency practices foster trust and collaboration
49:20 Tools and Processes for Inclusivity - IETF’s approach to open meetings, mailing lists, and protocol tracking tools
54:00 Power Structures and Distributed Authority - How IETF decentralizes authority and accountability within its organization
1:01:45 Community and Volunteer-Driven Structure - The importance of community participation and corporate support in sustaining IETF
1:09:20 Q&A - Audience questions on rough consensus, bad actors, and the role of facilitators
1:20:15 Key Takeaways and Reflections
1:28:30 Closing Remarks and Further Resources
Call hosted by Rosa Zubizarreta and Andy Paice.
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