Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

[Fred Baker <[e-mail]>]

On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Leslie Daigle wrote:
> Giving the Trust a chair is at least a step towards acknowledging  
> it as a separate organization (beyond instrument), and one could  
> then examine whether the IAOC members are, in fact, the right  
> people to populate it (for example).  It certainly opens the doors  
> to mission creep.

Russ asked IAOC members to contribute. OK, here I am.

It actually is a separate organization. It has separate meetings,  
separate minutes, and a separate membership - all trustees are IAOC  
members, and one certainly hopes that all IAOC members will agree to  
sign the form that makes them trustees, but that is not a requirement  
of IAOC membership. Specifically the chair of the trustees is *not*  
identified as the chair of the IAOC in the current procedures or in  
the trust - rather, meetings are convened by any trustee who happens  
to be present.

Is that a problem? Well, it's not a big one, but it does seem odd.

There are two logical ways to fix this. One is to identify the set of  
trustees with the IAOC - same committee, same chair, same meetings,  
same minutes. The other is to recognize the difference and decide  
that it's OK - the chair of the trustees might be the same as the  
chair of the IAOC but doesn't have to be, but leave the meetings,  
minutes, and committee separate as they are now. We chose the second,  
being the least change, and are suggesting it to the IETF community.
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