Re: Registration details for IETF 108

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Tue, 02 June 2020 16:03 UTC

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From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 12:03:39 -0400
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Subject: Re: Registration details for IETF 108
To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 9:29 AM Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 6:16 AM Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
>
>> Eric Rescorla wrote on 02/06/2020 13:57:
>> > This seems like entirely appropriate practice on short notice.
>>
>> neither side's position seems unreasonable from their own point of view:
>> the LLC needs to make executive decisions and sometimes these will be
>> problematic. Conversely, the IETF community has an expectation that
>> there's engagement about policy changes before they happen.
>>
>
> Hmm... This doesn't seem like the right framing to me in several respects:
>
> First, I think everyone agrees that some kinds of policy changes would
> need consultation. For instance, if the LLC were to decide that in
> perpetuity we were not to havemeetings or that we were to have 6 a year,
> that would clearly need consultation. On the other hand, I (would hope)
> that everyone agrees that some changes could be made by executive
> decision. For instance, moving the refund date forward or back by a day
> would I hope not require community consultation. So the question at hand is
> what kind of decision this is.
>

Indeed in this particular case, there are no alternative choices available
and thus no decision to be made.

I have spent far too much time over the past four years explaining to my
former Oxford friends that reality isn't something you decide by
referendum. Reality isn't subject to consensus calls either.

The brute facts we face are that international travel is certain to be
infeasible for the remainder of the year and quite likely for some time
beyond, that the IETF business model is predicated on income from in-person
meetings that can't now take place and this leaves few options on the table.

Making standards is fundamentally a process of making the choices that
don't matter - except to the extent it matters that we all do the same
thing. In this case they aren't even really choices.

Second, as you can see from the thread above, it's not correct that "the
> iETF community" has an expectation they should have been consulted about
> this in advance. Rather, part of the IETF community does and some of it
> thinks this was fine.
>

Rather than 'fine', I would use the word 'unavoidable'.