[Iasa20] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc4071bis-08: (with COMMENT)

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Mirja Kühlewind has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc4071bis-08: No Objection

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One high level question: I would have expected that this document also says
something about interaction with the IETF Trust. Or are there none?

I believe my other comments below are mostly editorial, however, I also have a
few question. Sorry, if those questions have been discussed earlier.

1) I find it rather confusing to have a reference to [ietf101-slides] in the
doc (given the pictures there are not fully up to date). I don't think that
particular reference is needed to make the point about transparency.

2) Sec 4.4.: "Unification: The IETF LLC provides the corporate legal home for
      the IETF, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), and the Internet
      Research Task Force (IRTF), and financial support for the
      operation of the RFC Editor."
I'm wondering why the RFC Editor is named here but no other services the IETF
contracts with...?

Similar in section 7: "environment within which the work of the IETF, IAB,
   IRTF, and RFC Editor can remain vibrant and productive."
I understand that the money flow is different for e.g. IANA, however, they also
provide an important function.

And similar in section 7.7.: "The IETF LLC exists to support the IETF, IAB, and
IRTF.  Therefore,
   the IETF LLC's funding and all revenues, in-kind contributions, and
   other income that comprise that funding shall be used solely to
   support activities related to the IETF, IAB, IRTF, and RFC Editor,
   and for no other purposes."

3) sec 4.7: Is it appropriate to have the LLC Broad review its own decision
instead of having an independent entity to do that?

4) Regarding the IESG delegate for the LLC Board, sec 6.4 states that the term
is 2 years. That makes sense if the IETF chairs takes that position which
should be the usual case. However, if another IESG member would take the
position, is the expectation that the IESG can only select someone whose AD
term just started? Or would that person be the delegate for 2 years even if he
or she leaves the IESG after one year? Also would the IESG be able to remove or
change the delegate before the end of that term? I guess that second question
also applies to the appointee from ISOC...

5) sec 6.12: "The IETF, IAB and IRTF chairs, and the chair
of ISOC's Board, will be ineligible for this Board Chair role."
Are the IAB and IRTF chair listed here because they could be NomCom- or IESG-
selected Board members? Or is that an oversight?

Also then this is picked up in section 8.1 again:
"The IETF, ISOC Board, IAB, or IRTF chair cannot be chair of the
      IETF LLC Board, though they may serve as a Director."
However the following sentence in the same section, seem to assume that this
policy is not defined in this doc but developed by the Board in future. "The
Board is expected to maintain a Conflict of Interest policy for
   the IETF LLC. "

nit:
s/agreements that that meet a significant materiality threshold/agreements that
meet a significant materiality threshold/ -> 2x that