Administrative Support Groups
IAB Administrative Support Groups are groups with dedicated membership, similar to directorates, that act as an arm of the IAB, assisting the IAB in discharging its responsibilities.
Administrative Support Groups assist the IAB in their chartered responsibilities (see RFC2850), particularly for those responsibilities where coordination with external bodies is required, such as ISOC, IANA, or liaisons to other SDOs.
Administrative Support Groups have a dedicated membership with at least one IAB member who will act as the lead or liaison. Usually, these groups have non-IAB members as well, but may also consist only of a small subgroup of IAB, in order to clearly distribute responsibilities in maintaining a long-term task of the IAB, e.g. as could be done for the organization of the technical plenary.
Administrative support groups that support the liaison coordination work with another SDO are usually led by the liaison managers for that SDO, from both sides. These groups have closed membership but are encouraged to involve a large set of people who are active in both organizations or are involved in work that has a dependency on both organizations, such as working group chairs and document authors. Not all liaison relations require an administrative support group; only if frequent coordination, often including leadership, is advantageous because of a large set of dependencies.
Administrative Support Groups usually hold frequent meetings/calls. Minutes are provided publicly in the datatracker after approval of the group.