Avri,
--On tirsdag, januar 25, 2005 23:44:09 -0500 avri@xxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Leslie,
This formulation is still of the form that does not give the IETF community a direct voice in the review and appeal mechanisms for the IAOC.
I do not understand what you mean by "direct voice". Could you explain?
If what you mean is that the community should have representatives involved in the consideration of the issues, and do not think that the nomcom-selected members, the IESG-selected members and the IAB-selected members of the IAOC are appropriate community representation, I do not see any mechanism short of the way we constitute recall committees that will give you what you want.
If you think that the community should have the right of complaint, then I think you need to accept some limitation by human judgment on how much effort each complaint can cause. If that judgment is to lie outside of the IAOC, it has to be invoked for all complaints to the IAOC (making the system more formalistic); if it is inside the IAOC, it seems reasonable to have some means of overriding it.
I, personally see not reason why the IAOC is not directly addressable by the community and does not have a direct obligation to the IETF community. While I am comfortable with the IESG and IAB being the appeal path for the IAOC, I am not comfortable with them being a firewall for the IAOC.
I do have a problem with seeing the words that Leslie proposed as fitting your description. As described, it isn't a firewall - it's an override of a safeguard.
I think this is a fundamental question that differentiates Margaret's formulation from yours. I also think it is a fundamental question that goes back to issues in the problem statement about the current leadership model: too much influence is focused in one leadership group. One benefit of the creation of the IAOC is that it spreads the task of running of the IETF to another group of people. As such, I think the IAOC must be required to respond directly to the community.
I don't quite see the logic here - we take tasks that are currently performed in an undocumented and unaccountable fashion and move them into a body that has oversight over them, is selected by the community, is removable by the community, and is (as I see it) normally expected to respond to the community.
Question: My reading of Leslie's words is that "It is up to that body to decide to make a response" should be read by the IAOC as "you'd better have a good reason not to make a response".
Is what you're really looking for a way to make that "bias" in judgment explicit?
Harald
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