--On Sunday, 02 January, 2005 08:19 -0500 Scott Bradner
<sob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> brian asks
>> Perhaps we do indeed need to explicitly limit the
>> IAOC Chair to chairing the IAOC. But we almost do - the
>> following paragraph says:
>>
>> The chair of the IAOC shall have the authority to manage
>> the activities and meetings of the IAOC. The IAOC Chair
>> has no formal duty to represent the IAOC, except as
>> directed by IAOC consensus.
>>
>> Isn't this enough?
>
> maybe the 2nd sentence change to
>
> The IAOC Chair does not represent the IAOC (unless directed
> to do so by IAOC consensus) and does not represent the IETF.
>
> "no formal duty" leaves the IAOC chair to do so anyway and it
> would be good, in the same place, to say that the IAOC chair
> does not represent the IETF
Yes. "no formal duty" implies that all sorts of representations
can be made and done, it just does not _require_ the Chair to do
it. As Margaret points out, large dragons have walked through
smaller loopholes in the IETF. Scott's proposed sentence is
_much_ better.
john
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