Bert justifies by: > Besides my (wordy) response to you back on Sept 4th (or 3rd in US) > as availabe at: > http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg31057.html which I read as saying "I distrust the IETF's ability to react if things get bad with the ISOC" I do not see how the (dis)trust should be any different in the case of an independent corporation - in addition, if the admin director we (the selection process whatever it is) select turns out to be a twit in disguise I think we are in far deeper do-do with a sperate coporation where the one person is basically the whole staff of the corporation than in the case where other ISOC staff could fill in after we dump the twit (if we have the wherewithall to do that) > The advantages I see are: > - if done properly, this allows the IETF support function > to be carried out by a SHARPLY FOCUSED operation. > We won't get sidetracked into things that are non-IETF. I do not see any reason to think that an admin director whose only job is to support the IETF would be any less focused if he or she were working within the ISOC than if he or she were working in an independent corporation and, in fact, woould think they would be more focused because he or she would not have to be worrying about running a corporation, an office and dealing with accountants etc > - if done properly, this allows for a very straight forward > governance mechanism that is *directly* accountable to > the IETF and where change control is clearly vested in that > same community. Again, the corporate solution is the > lightweight and straightforward solution. I do not see any reason to think an admin director working for the ISOC would be any less accountable to the IETF than one working in an independent corporation - in both cases it is a matter of defining the employment contract clearly > To me it seems that starting a corporation is pretty straight forward > if I understand the report from our consultant correctly. > It seems we can do this without a huge corporate bureaucracy. > In other words: we can make this lightweight (when operational). > I understand we need to do some extra steps to get it started. I fully agree that filing the papers to start a corporation is easy I think we will have to agree to disagree on the level of effort required to actually get a coproration such as he one described in Scenario C up an running to a useful state and to the point where the admin director would actually have a chance to pay much attention to the IETF duties. (ignoring, for this message, the tax issues etc) Scott _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf