Hi Stephen,
At 05:48 PM 03-05-2020, Stephen Farrell wrote:
To be clear: I fully accept Jay's bona-fides here,
and those of whomever he has already had discussions
with about this. IOW, I think this is a well
intentioned, but fundamentally misguided, ask.
Could you please ask the Internet Architecture Board to publish its
strategic objectives for the next three to five years? The rationale
for the request is that the information could useful to help in
responding to the current IETF Administration LLC consultation?
A few days ago, I looked up the LLC status. It was a bit surprising
to find out that it is not a recognized not-for-profit legal entity
even though it was incorporated in 2018. I did not ask whether that
would have an impact on IETF operations.
The LLC Directors would have discussed the matter. I could not
locate when that happened. It looks like a consultation on a
theoretical paper as there isn't any evidence to back what is in
it. That does not mean that the problems which the
Executive Director is tasked to work on are not real problems. As
an example, an IETF attendee is only charged for half the cost of the
services he/she is provided with. Where does the other half of the
money come from might be one of the questions a person might ask. If
it is from the Public Interest Registry, does the fact that the
Internet Engineering Steering Group [1] appoint a few members on the
board of its holding company mitigate the risk of the IETF LLC
posting a significant loss?
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
1. I did not verify the details for accuracy.
