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Re: [admin-discuss] Consultation on IETF Administrative Strategic Plan 2023

Jay Daley <exec-director@ietf.org> Fri, 17 November 2023 13:45 UTC

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From: Jay Daley <exec-director@ietf.org>
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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:45:09 +0000
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> On 17 Nov 2023, at 13:34, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
> I think it's important to say that the worry is not about the
> current or even future LLC personnel - it's the general issue
> that staff doing their $dayjob full-time will, over time, tend
> to take on more and more of the tasks that volunteers used do,
> even when everyone is trying to do the right thing. Avoiding
> that needs both the LLC folks to explicitly aim to avoid that
> outcome and it needs the IESG to not let it happen.

Just to note that I fully agree with this.  Even with the best intentions, it is possible for both current and future IETF LLC personnel to slip into this without noticing, and so external scrutiny, which is entirely reliant on significant transparency, is both important and necessary to prevent that.

Jay


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