Re: [Rfced-future] Model proposal

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 4:14 PM Joel M. Halpern <[e-mail]> wrote:

> We keep a lawyer on retainer.
> So the difference becomes that we are looking for someone who will be
> - more engaged in understanding and helping direct the community (the
> lawyers explicit do not direct)
> - have more ongoing activities, although quite possibly less than
> heretofore
>


Well, I'm not sure about the "we" here, as I'm arguing that we should not
in fact be looking for this.

Rather, I am arguing that the community should drive strategy (potentially
with some structure like Martin proposed) and that to the extent to which
we need someone with specific expertise in the areas Brian has flagged, we
should hire someone to advise us, in much the same way we do for legal
advice.

-Ekr

Sounds like you are actually arguing for a senior, respected,
> contractor.  With a long term relationship.
>
> Yours,
> Joel
>
> On 7/7/2020 6:18 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 3:11 PM Brian E Carpenter
> > <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>>
> wrote:
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> >      > Sorry, I should have been more clear. I think this is a proper
> >     subject for IESG and IAB consideration, made somewhat more difficult
> >     by anchoring on a historical five author limit that had (at least to
> >     me) a fairly unclear rationale.
> >
> >     Absolutely I think that community discussion and rough consensus is
> >     appropriate for this and other strategy or policy issues. My concern
> >     is that this needs to be facilitated and informed by someone with
> >     relevant knowledge and experience in the
> >     editing/publishing/library/archival world and that is not us.
> >
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> > Stipulating for the moment that this is true, I don't really see how you
> > get from there to "and this person needs to be in charge of the
> > process". To give an example that I think I also gave on the most recent
> > virtual call, we often have to do things that require a bunch of
> > relevant expertise in the legal world, and that's not us, but address
> > that problem by engaging a lawyer and asking their opinion. Why doesn't
> > that work here?
> >
> > -Ekr
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