Sounds good to me. Bert > -----Original Message----- > From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [mailto:harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 14:35 > To: scott bradner; bwijnen@xxxxxxxxxx; ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: AdminRest: IASA BCP: Executive Director > > > Trying to wrap the ExDir discussion: > > The IETF process documents have been written with the > assumption in a few > places that there exists an IETF Executive Director, and that > IETF process > documents can assign tasks to that person. > The things that the process documents mention explicitly are > far less than > a full time job; the job that the current Executive Director > (Barbara) is > doing is clearly more than a full time job. > > In the new model, there is no neat box marked "IETF Executive > Director". > Part of what Barbara's doing goes to the IAD (primary interface with > IESG/IAB to figure out what requirements are), part go with > the contractor > that does the "clerk" contract (managing the support staff), > and part seems > to have no natural home. > > I think that we should stick the BCP at the abstraction level > (who makes > the decision), and not at the assignment level (who does the > job). But I > think that the IESG is not the best body to assign those > tasks (its role is > intended to be mostly technical, not administrative), and I > think it's not > certain they all go to one place. So I would say: > > The IAOC, in consultation with the IAB and the IESG, > will designate the person(s) to carry out the tasks that > other IETF process documents say are carried out by the > IETF Executive Director. > > Does that make sense to people? > > Harald > > --On 26. november 2004 13:43 -0500 scott bradner > <sob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Bert further asks: > >> The IETF Administrative Director (IAD) is not the same function > >> as the IETF Executive Director. The IESG shall select an IETF > >> Executive Director (as defined in xxx, we need to fill out xxx). > >> > >> Does the IETF community can agree with that? > > > > I agree that the IAD and the IETF ED are different > functions and agree > > with the new paragraph > > > > Scott > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ietf mailing list > > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf