Re: [Rfced-future] Filling the RSCE position (was: Re: Comments on -07)

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

Hi Mirja

On 03.01.22 16:23, Mirja Kuehlewind wrote:
> Further, the IETF LLC is mention two times here: 1) to form the 
> selection committee, 2) to make a final decision on the RSCE. The 
> board can delegate the task to “create” the search committee to 
> anybody any time, however, the responsibility for these decisions 
> stays with the board from my point of view. I don’t think they can 
> actually delegate a “decision”.
>
> Mirja
>
> P.S.: I reviewed the notes you linked below and if you read them at 
> whole and particularly Jay’s comments (e.g. "the LLC board is the 
> final sign-off”), I believe this also reflect my assumption that then 
> board is responsible when we say IETF LLC in the text. The sentence 
> you cited is out of context is from the beginning of the discussion 
> and not the end.

While I am fully confident that Jay's statement was and probably remains 
true, the board can never-the-less decide to delegate later.   Nowhere 
does it say they cannot; and our text actually reaffirms that (we 
explicitly call out the board elsewhere in the doc, but not there).  My 
point is simply that you should not make the assumption that this text 
constrains the current board or future boards to not delegate; and you 
may wish to take that into account in terms of how you consider the 
current matter.  As a practical matter, I doubt they would delegate this 
hiring decision for at least the foreseeable future, but that is me 
merely speculating.

Eliot