Re: AdminRest: IASA BCP: Executive Director

There is an obvious question that at least for me drives the answer to 
whther the IAD is the IETF Executive Director.

As currently practiced / defined, is the IETF Executive Director a full 
time job?

If it is a full time job, then clearly it should not be combined with the 
IAD.  THis implies that we will need budgeting to contract / hire this 
person in addition to the IAD.

On the other hand, if this is not a full time job, it seems to make more 
sense to combine it with the IAD because there is a very large overlap in 
required knowledge.  For example, If the IESG decides in their meeting to 
ask that the infrastructure group do something, the Exectuive director will 
know that immediately, and have the context of the discussion.  If the IAD 
is a separate person, he will need a clear description of what needs to be 
done, and need to make sure the work is tracked properly in managing the 
contract with the infastructure provider.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 10:27 AM 11/26/2004, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
>In draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-00.txt it states at the end of sect 3.1:
>
>    Unless explicitly delegated with the consent of the IAOC, the IAD
>    will also fill the role of the IETF Executive Director, as described
>    in various IETF process BCPs.
>
>We currently have (in our working version of the IASA BCP):
>
>       Editors' note: The preceding paragraph has generated some
>       comments, given that the role of the IETF Executive director is
>       mentioned in a number of documents, some of which are fairly old
>       and dusty.  The editors actively solicit feedback on whether this
>       paragraph is ok as it stands.
>
>We had some discussion in the IESG about this (because the IETF
>Executive Director also interacts with the IESG basically on a
>daily basis). I believe that in the IESG our current thinking is that
>better text would be:
>
>    The IETF Administrative Director (IAD) is not the same function
>    as the IETF Executive Director.  The IESG shall select an IETF
>    Executive Director (as defined in xxx, we need to fill out xxx).
>
>Does the IETF community can agree with that?
>
>Bert
>
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