[103attendees] IAOC/IETF LLC Board Report for IETF103

[IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors Chair <[e-mail]>]

This report is provided in advance of IETF103 for the purpose of giving the community more detail on the work of the IETF Administration LLC as well as the final report from the IAOC.  

The IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors and IAOC will present a consolidated version of this at the IETF103 Plenary. Please bring any questions you have to the IETF103 plenary or send them to the IETF LLC Board at [e-mail].

New IETF meeting fees and registration process
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IETF103 is the first meeting held under the new meeting fee structure:

     $700  Early Bird rate up to 7 weeks before 
     $875  Standard Rate up to 2 weeks before
    $1000  Late Rate after 2 weeks before 

     $150  Student Fee
     $375  One Day Pass

IETF103 registration patterns were very different from prior meetings with many participants taking advantage of the new Early Bird rate.  	

The registration process was also updated for IETF103 to require meeting fees be paid by new attendees prior to Letters of Invitation being available.  While there were a few initial operational bugs in the updated system that were encountered by a few registrants during Early Bird registration, the Secretariat responded quickly and resolved the bugs allowing for a smooth registration process for IETF103 attendees. 

As of the cut off for the Standard Rate registration deadline, the Early Bird and Standard registrations for IETF103 were:  
      
      423  Early Bird registrations
      229  Standard Rate registrations 

The projected IETF103 attendance is 900 which will include Late Rate, Students, and One Day Pass registrations which are not reflected in the above numbers.  Additional registration information and stats will be presented at the IETF103 Plenary.


IETF103 Thailand Visas
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Thailand is a new location for the IETF;  though it has successfully hosted many international technical conferences, it is new to most IETF attendees.   One area of concern had been what visas IETF attendees from around the world would require to attend IETF103.  Working with the local Thailand Conference and Event Bureau (TCEB) we were able to have IETF103 declared an official MICE event (Meetings Incentive Conventions Exhibitions) including a letter for attendees from the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau which greatly helped clarify that IETF103 attendees qualify for the visa requirements for MICE attendees. 


IETF106 Singapore
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Singapore has been chosen as the location for IETF106 in November 2019, and due to the heightened discussion around IETF100 we would like to provide some context around this decision.

We chose Singapore to meet our 1-1-1 (Europe-North America-Asia) meeting rotation goal, and Singapore was selected because when compared to the other Asia meeting location choices evaluated and having availability for the IETF106 dates the IAOC concluded Singapore was the best overall of the available choices.  Before making this decision, the IAOC also carefully reviewed the comments made about Singapore in response to the IAOC’s call for venue city input, the post meeting survey results from IETF100, and evaluation of Singapore against the Meeting Venue Selection draft-16 criteria.  
 
The IETF100 post meeting survey respondents submitted the following overall rating of the meeting location:

             Excellent:     49.11%  (83 respondents)
             Very Good:     27.81%  (47)
             Good:          16.57%  (28)
             Fair:           5.33%   (9)
             Poor:           1.18%   (2) 

An important issue cited by several respondents to the post IETF100 survey was the cost to attendees.  Noting this we worked hard to negotiate the November 2019 IETF106 hotel room rates to be the same as we paid at IETF100 in 2017 keeping guest room rates flat despite the 2 year difference and bucking the global trend of hotel room rates surging upward.


IASA2.0 and IETF Administration LLC
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A major milestone of the IETF Administrative Support Activity 2 working group, led by chairs Jason Livingood and Jon Peterson, was achieved on August 27 when the legal documents creating the IETF Administration LLC were signed and filed in Delaware.   This established the IETF Administration LLC as a distinct legal entity with its own bank accounts, ability to sign legal contracts, raise funds, and hire staff.    
 
The IETF Administration LLC, or IETF LLC as many casually refer to it, is structured as documented in the IASA2 WG Draft (https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-iasa2-struct.txt) and replaces the IAOC and the IAD with the new IETF LLC Board of Directors and the new IETF Executive Director roles.  
 
The interim IETF LLC Board of Directors consisting of the Chairs of the IESG (Alissa Cooper), the IAB (Ted Hardie), the IAOC (Glenn Deen) and the ISOC Board of Trustees (Gonzalo Camarillo) was seated and will serve until the first full board is seated.   Glenn Deen was elected chair by the interim Board at its first meeting.   

The board can be contacted at [e-mail] and the chair can be contacted at [e-mail].
 
The selection process to fill the full board is underway with 3 members to be selected by the IETF NOMCOM, 1 member by the IESG, and 1 member by the ISOC Board of Trustees. The first full board is expected to be seated by IETF104 in March 2019.   
 
More information about the IETF LLC Board of Directors is available on the IETF LLC Board page (https://ietf.org/about/groups/llc-board/) including meeting minutes and information about upcoming IETF LLC Board meetings.  In the interest of transparency, one of the first decisions made by the board was to open board meetings to observers, so please attend if interested.

The LLC Board is focused on completing the transition from the IAOC. The immediate priority has been establishing financial accounts and accounting procedures; beginning work on an investment policy and selecting an investment manager; reviewing proposals for insurance, legal, and accounting practices under the LLC; and finalizing the 2019 IETF Budget.   

  
 
IAD and IETF Executive Director
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The IETF LLC Agreement calls for the role of an IETF Executive Director. Our current interim IETF Administrative Director (IAD), Portia Wenze-Danley, is serving as interim Executive Director. The first full board will conduct a recruitment search for a permanent executive director next year.  Portia can be reached at [e-mail]

The IASA2.0 creation of the new role of IETF Executive Director meant that there was a conflict with the existing title of IETF Executive Director which was Alexa Morris.  To fix this, Alexa’s new title is now Managing Director IETF Secretariat. 
 

IAOC
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With the establishment of the IETF LLC, the IAOC (IETF Administrative Oversight Committee) is being shut down as the IETF LLC assumes the responsibilities previously performed by the IAOC.   Most IAOC work including IETF meeting venue selection, oversight of the IETF Executive Director, financial management, and the IETF 2019 budget have already been transferred to the IETF LLC.   The IAOC will be formally disbanded once the IETF Trust rules have been updated to remove the current requirement that IETF Trustees be members of the IAOC in order to serve.  The needed changes to do this are undergoing the review process and are expected to be complete very shortly.  
 
Thank you to the IETF IAOC members for their work on both the IAOC and on the hand off work to the IETF LLC:  Ted Hardie, Alissa Cooper, Kaveh Ranjbar, John Levine, Lou Berger, Portia Wenze-Danley, Andrew Sullivan, and Glenn Deen.

 
IETF 2019 Budget
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The IAOC has completed its work on the IETF 2019 budget and has submitted it as a recommendation to the IETF LLC Board of Directors which is reviewing it and working on finalizing the budget. This is expected to be completed by the end of IETF103.  Additional budget information will be published once it is completed and adopted.


Upcoming meetings
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IETF104 March 23-29, 2019 in Prague - CZ.nic (TBD Co-host)
IETF105 July 20-26, 2019 in Montreal - hosted by Comcast & NBCUniversal
IETF106 November 16-22,2019 in Singapore
IETF107 March 21-27, 2020 in Vancouver
IETF108 July 25-31,2020 in Madrid hosted by Ericsson 

Please contact Ken Boyden ([e-mail]) if you are interesting in sponsoring at any level one of the upcoming IETF meetings.


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Thank you
Glenn Deen, on behalf of the IAOC(as Chair) and on behalf of the IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors(as Chair)