Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

On 3/5/2013 2:52 PM, Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
> While the IETF is unique in many ways, the staff-volunteer issue
> isn't all that unique. Many organizations face this. As one example,
> organizations like IEEE and ACM struggle with this. (For example,
> they have, over the years, delegated many functions in conference
> management that used to be done by volunteers to paid staff.) Even
> government regulatory bodies operate with a mixture of volunteer
> labor (advisory councils) and paid staff. The solution space seems
> rather constrained:
...
> (2) Pay the person a salary while on leave from their home
> institution/employer. As an example, NSF and DARPA do this for their
> program managers. The employer still takes a hit and there's some risk
> to the person that they won't get their job back, but it allows a larger
> number of individuals to participate.

In the US government version of this (IPA), the person remains 
officially an employee of their home institution; it's a grant/contract 
to the home institution.

So I would break this into two sub-categories:

	a) pay the person while "on leave"

	b) pay the home institution for the person's work as a
	contract/grant
		(this is closer to how the NSF, DARPA, and other
		US govt visiting positions work)

They work out quite differently; the latter means you're paying 
overhead, and can be quite costly but might be more attractive.

Joe