Hi Brian,
At 10:38 AM +0100 12/3/04, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
On the other hand, transparency requires the ability to inspect the accounts that are pertinent to the IETF, its budget vs it projected expenditure vs its actual expenditures. This can, I believe, be adequately handled by so-called 'divisional accounting'.
Exactly. I think the -01 draft has it right, except that I propose adding a sentence at the end of paragraph 5 in section 2.2:
All such funds and donations shall be irrevocably assigned to the IETF.
(Like my "irrevocable" for the intellectual property, this is intended for the bolt-blowing situation.)
Who are we trying to protect ourselves from? And what does it mean for funds to be "irrevocably assigned to the IETF"?
While I agree that the IASA accounting needs to be transparent and understandable, I think that we should be cautious about making public, hard-to-change rules about our own accounting structures and fund transfers that may limit our flexibility and/or negatively impact the stability of the organization later.
Margaret
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