Hiya, On 06/01/2025 05:15, Jay Daley wrote:
The community is in actual control but in RFC 8711 the community delegates contractual decisions to the LLC and this action is in accordance with that delegation as it is solely about how the RPC service is sourced, rather than what the RPC service delivers. RFC 8711 is explicit around this type of change where it says "The division of responsibilities between staff and contractors is at the discretion of the IETF Executive Director and their staff", though this was an LLC Board decision given the value and significance of this contract.
So I think the significance is such that this is one that'd have been better handled as an announcement of the intent to make the change (before doing it) rather than as a fait-accompli. I'll leave it at that - as shown by mails in this thread, it's quite possible for reasonable people to disagree on the above. Cheers, S.
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