Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sat, 05 April 2008 03:37 UTC

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Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:37:16 +1300
From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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-1. I think that given the pressure of work on our
volunteer "officials", we should allow load sharing
wherever it's feasible. We have running code here -
despite having the IAD's support and a volunteer
Secretary for the Trust, two successive IAOC chairs
have been overburdened.

   Brian

On 2008-04-04 22:50, Harald Alvestrand 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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