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

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Mon, 26 January 2015 02:52 UTC

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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:50:13PM +0000, Milton L Mueller wrote:
>> How does one "implement" an "existing state of affairs?" If it is existing, it does not need implementation; if it needs implementation it is not quite the existing state of affairs yet.
>>
> I suppose it was not the most elegant way of putting it.  I was trying
> to be succinct because it seemed to me that we were in peril of
> revisiting a number of closed topics.  But, since you ask,
>
>> "No new organizations or structures are required. ... However in the absence of the NTIA contract a few new arrangements may be needed in order to ensure the IETF community's expectations are met."
>>
> this is how.  That is, we need no new organizations or structures.  I
> think the WG was crystal clear that it is happy with the existing way
> things work (hence "existing state of affairs").  What is changing is
> that someone is leaving, and the actual current arrangements implicate
> the departing party by reference.  So, IAOC needs to conclude a new
> agreement that captures that moves the bits that implicate that
> departing party into the agreement between IANA and IETF.

No... that's not crystal clear.  What's crystal clear is that the WG 
leadership, and a majority of participants, felt that it was beyond its 
charter to comment on legal and contractual issues, and didn't want to 
get into them.

Miles Fidelman

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