Re: [Iasa20] Comments on draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc4844-bis-01

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

> On 10 Feb 2019, at 23:18, Richard Barnes <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>  Instead of saying "the hiring/firing of the RFC Series Editor to stay with the IAB, but the funding to stay with IASA", we can instead express the expectation of the community:
> 
> - The IAB will designate a person to be RSE, and may choose to remove or change that designation at any time.
> - The IASA is expected to make appropriate hiring/contractual arrangements to enable the IAB's designated person to perform the RSE role.
> 
> The key difference here are the IAB does not "hire / fire", they "designate", since they clearly cannot have the power to force the IASA to enter into contracts.  Otherwise, I think text to this effect would encode the desired case that Bob describes.


Right.  And what’s more, this is really in keeping with the language in draft-ietf-iasa2-rfc4071bis, which is already *pretty* careful to put things in terms of community expectations (there is one place where a “shall” is used that should probably be given careful consideration).  I think this is also in keeping with Brad’s advice, and what’s really nice is that we don’t get into legalisms in the text.  And it really does document the way things are and how they’ve been.

Eliot