Re: Specific Questions about Registration details for IETF 108

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

[ObDisclaimer: I am ISOC's CEO, but please note that I am _not_ offering an ISOC position at the moment.]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 08:07:24PM -0700, Bob Hinden wrote:

>That isn’t a new problem, as much of our funding some from ISOC.
>
>A model where the meetings (face to face or all remote) pay for themselves, and ISOC pays for the rest would work.

I'm sure that would work well for the IETF, but it is not the deal the IETF agreed to when the LLC agreement was established.  The IETF and ISOC came to an agreement based on the then-in-force principles of budgetting, and those were not "ISOC pays for everything other than IETF direct meeting costs".  So if the proposed were the way the IETF wished to budget in the future, it would require some negotiation -- negotiation that I suspect probably cannot be undertaken in time for a July virtual meeting.

(More generally, and not in reference to Bob's message in particular, I'm a little surprised at the degree to which the community wants to manage the LLC on this topic, given the oft-expressed concern during the IASA reform work that the community tended to try to involve itself in details that were really properly a staff question.)

Best regards,

A

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