[Iasa20] 6635bis

[Sean Turner <[e-mail]>]

Hi!  While I am not sending this message on behalf of the IETF Administration LLC, I have to admit that I am reading the IASA2.0 I-Ds with more interest as an LLC officer because I am somewhere nearer the front of the go-to-jail line if something goes terribly wrong ;)

With this in mind, after reading many of the the IASA2.0-related I-Ds the simple IAOC to LLC terminology swap totally makes sense.  For draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc6635bis, I am wondering whether more should be done.  Specifically, I am wondering whether the language about how the RSE services are delivered should be loosened or at least made internally consistent.  As I read it, draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc6635bis does include a reference to an “employment agreement or contracting plans, as appropriate” as it pertains to the RSOC working with the LLC concerning RSE services.  But, the rest of the draft, at least to me, reads as if the LLC will contract these services out with no wiggle room for an employee to do them.

The slant towards contracting made sense prior to forming the LLC, but now that the LLC has been formed these functions could be performed by an employee.  For any given role, the LLC might find it preferable to have the role filled by an employee versus a contractor for the purposes of being able to offer better benefits, to more easily comply with employment/tax law, or for other reasons. The original IASA model didn’t offer as much flexibility since hiring decisions were ultimately ISOC’s.  If the language in the draft was tweaked to accommodate both contractors and employees then this document would not, in mind at least, unnecessarily restrict the LLC.

Before I submit a list of potential edits to this list for draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc6635bis, I just wanted to see whether these type of changes would even be palatable?

Cheers,

spt

PS - I am sending this message right before some family-related activities so I might be slow to respond.