Re: [Ianaplan] Process concern regarding the IETF proposal development process

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

On 27/01/2015 05:12, Richard Hill wrote:
> Thank you.
> 
> Unless I misunderstand, according to 3.4 of RFC 4017, IAOC decisions are made by IAOC members. How will the global
> multi-stakeholder community te able to influence those decisions?

That's irrelevant. The IAOC and IETF Trust are responsible to the IETF,
not to the global multi-stakeholder community.

And to say it all one more time: IF and ONLY IF new contractual and
intellectual property arrangements become necessary, THEN the IAOC and
the IETF Trust are the IETF's bodies for dealing with them. And the
WG preference was very clearly to cross that bridge ONLY IF we come to
it. Our stated preference is to continue the present arrangements that
we signed up to in March 2000, which means there would be nothing new
for the IAOC and IETF Trust to do. Why is that hard to understand?

The next WG milestone reads
"May 2015 review of other transition proposals, if needed."
That's the same "if". I'll see you then.

   Brian