Re: [Mtgvenue] About draft-ietf-mtgvenue-iaoc-venue-selection-process

Alissa Cooper <alissa@cooperw.in> Tue, 16 October 2018 18:39 UTC

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From: Alissa Cooper <alissa@cooperw.in>
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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 20:38:52 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Mtgvenue] About draft-ietf-mtgvenue-iaoc-venue-selection-process
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Thanks to Eliot for raising this. I think there are some subtelties here so it’s good that we are talking about this now. This may belong better on the IASA 2.0 list but let’s see.

My understanding is that “IASA” as defined in RFC 4071 refers to an activity. Despite it being an activity and not an explicitly defined group, RFC 4071 attributes responsibilities to it and says that the IASA will do things (like enter into contracts). 

As documented in draft-haberman-iasa20dt-recs-02, some of the goals of IASA 2.0 are to more clearly define roles and responsibilities and to more clearly define the IETF-ISOC relationship.  These were big motivating factors in creating the LLC. So, although we still have the term IASA 2.0 around, my assumption had been that in documents like draft-ietf-mtgvenue-iaoc-venue-selection-process we could be explicit about who has responsibility and who is expected to take responsibility for getting things done. When we discussed on this list the use of the term “IASA” in this document I figured that was what we needed to do at the time because it was the only term that we had. But now we have a clearer term that more accurately describes the actual entity responsible — the LLC. (This doesn’t foreclose the possibility of the LLC using contractors and volunteers to do things, it just indicates who is ultimately responsible.)

Notably, draft-ietf-iasa2-struct (which is now being proposed as the replacement for RFC 4071) does not use the term “IASA” to represent an entity that has responsibility.

So, I don’t think “IASA” is going away as long as people still want to use the term to describe the activity, but I think we can and should be specific about roles and responsibilities, and this document seems like a good first place to do so.

The LLC is already using the criteria and process in this document for meeting venue selection, so I think it’s worth taking the time to sort this out before publication — no rush.

Regarding section 1, the full end of the second paragraph is accurate, I think, but perhaps not clear: "the Nominations Committee (NOMCOM), the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), and  the ISOC Board of Trustees, from which the LLC Board is constructed.” Maybe "the Nominations Committee (NOMCOM), the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), and  the ISOC Board of Trustees, which together select the LLC Board” would be better.

Alissa

> On Oct 16, 2018, at 5:57 PM, Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> Lou,
> 
> I'll let Alissa answer this further, but I'd ask you to answer my
> question.  The IASA previously was an actual group and not just a
> function.  Now what is left that is not covered by the LLC?
> 
> Eliot
> 
> 
> On 16.10.18 17:21, Lou Berger wrote:
>> Eliot,
>> 
>> I think you are conflating IASA with IAOC.  IASA is being updated to
>> replace the IAOC with the LLC.  By leaving the document as is, the
>> document won't have to be update if we change how IASA is implemented
>> in the future.  I think the other RFC updates that need to be done to
>> remove references to IAOC highlight how keeping IASA in this document
>> is really the right answer.
>> 
>> Lou
>> 
>> PS I think the following change is particularly unneeded:
>>     the ISOC Board of  Trustees, from which the LLC Board is constructed.
>> 
>> On 10/16/2018 8:58 AM, Eliot Lear wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 16.10.18 14:13, Lou Berger wrote:
>>>> Hi Eliot,
>>>> 
>>>> Given the LLC is more specific than, i.e., part of, IASA why is this
>>>> change needed or even a good idea?
>>>> 
>>> I'm not an IASA 2.0 expert, and of course I could be wrong, but from my
>>> vantage point, what you might think of as the IASA is really just the
>>> LLC.  So far as I can tell, All functions from the old IASA are
>>> transferring either into the LLC or beyond the bounds of what was the
>>> IASA. Given that the distinction is lost, there is value in losing the
>>> IASA monogram so as to avoid confusion with the old structure.
>>> 
>>> Eliot
>>> 
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