Re: [Iasa20] 6635bis

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 2:14 PM Sean Turner <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 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?


It seems important under the new model to ensure it could be a contractor
or an employee, so I'd think that's pretty palatable and wise.

best, Joe