Leif Johansson wrote on 02/05/2020 10:56:
I am not sure why having IETF around "forever" is a good thing.
the implication in what Andrew wrote was that the endowment would have provided long term funding stability for ISOC (and therefore IETF), not that the IETF would be obliged to continue to exist after some future sell-by date.
Nick