Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

[Pete Resnick <[e-mail]>]

On 7/20/09 at 9:09 AM -0700, Fred Baker wrote:

>On Jul 18, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Scott O. Bradner wrote:

[Numbering mine...]

>>The IETF Trust determines that there is a specific legal risk that 
>>must be countered.  In this case (***1***) the IETF Trust posts a 
>>description of the specific risk and the proposed change to counter 
>>the risk.  In this case (***2***) the Trust publishes the proposed 
>>changes with a 4-week last call and adopts the changes if (***3***) 
>>the IETF Chair determines that there is not IETF consensus against 
>>the specific changes.
>
>What do you think the Trust is doing in this case?

They have failed (and continue to fail) to complete step 1.

They have made live changes during step 2 and have not reset the last 
call counter (which we do not do in IETF LC: If the changes are 
strictly editorial, the RFC Editor can be asked to make the changes, 
otherwise we reset the LC).

And there is nothing in the 6/23 announcement or the 7/18 followup to 
indicate that they intend to fulfill step 3. To the contrary, it says:

>Please accept this message as a formal request by the IETF Trustees 
>for your review and feedback on the proposed revision to the TLP 
>document. The comment period will end on July 20, 2009.
>
>I expect the Trustees will decide on whether to adopt this revision 
>shortly after July 20, 2009.

Not good.

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