Re: [Iasa20] 6635bis

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>I think that if the LLC is seriously thinking of moving the Production Center activity inside of the IETF LLC,
>they don’t understand this activity.   As others have said, it would grow the amount of staff needed by the
>LLC significantly and turn it into a medium size company with all that entails.

I'm fairly sure they aren't.  

The point is that in the past the IAOC's semi-non-existence forced us
to use contractors for everything.  We don't have that issue any more
and it's not hard to forsee a situation where it could make sense for
the LLC's director or the RSE to be an employee rather than a
contractor.  Or it might make sense to have an employee who does some
aspect of the meeting management.

As it stands the LLC can always fudge it by turning an employee into a
nominal contractor by running him or her through a body shop but that
seems silly.  The arguments against having employees all seem to be of
the form that organzation X or situation Y had or has employees who
are poorly managed, but that seems to me to mistake the symptom for
the problem.

R's,
John