Harald asks > I feel some urgency to make sure that we have meeting arrangements in place > for 2005 - without imperiling our ability to make the best long-term > choices for the IETF. the logical path seems to be to ask Foretec to start making arrangements for next year's meetings - doing so in a way that could be transfered to another meeting manager if things came to that would be ideal but may be hard also imo it would least disruptive to follow option #3 (combo path) and try to negotiate a sole source contract with Foretec/CNRI for what Carl called the clerk function and maybe some other functions (imo it would be better to outsorce the management of the mailing lists and their archives to a company in that business) Scott _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf