Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com> Mon, 07 April 2008 19:22 UTC

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From: Leslie Daigle <leslie@thinkingcat.com>
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Subject: Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures
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+1 from me.

The role of the Trust Chair used to be pretty lightweight:  either it
still is, and Harald's advice is sound (get clerical help), or it
no longer is, and a more detailed explanation of the experienced change
would be helpful to the community being asked for comment.

Leslie.

--On April 4, 2008 11:50:23 AM +0200 Harald Alvestrand 
<harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:

> After considering the comments so far, I think I disagree with having a
> separate Trust chair.
>
> The idea behind making the IAOC be the Trustees was, among other things,
> to make sure that we didn't create yet another nexus of control in the
> labyrinth of committees; I understood the legal existence of the
> Trustees as something different (in name) from the IAOC to be strictly
> something we did for legal purposes
>
> If the IAOC chair is overburdened by having to manage the IAOC in two
> different contexts, get him (or her) a secretary.
>
> I agree with John's comment that leaving the current trustees in charge
> on dissolution of the IAOC is inappropriate; for one thing, that also
> removes all the recall mechanisms.
> Figure out something else to do in this case.
>
>                            Harald
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