Carl,
my impression as a bystander is that the IETF has decided that sole source
contracts (where only one contractor is permitted to bid) are, in general,
a Bad Idea.
The Secretariat contract had very special circumstances, which caused it to
be sole sourced, but I interpreted the words from Leslie's timeline:
May 7 2006[IASA]
Request for Vendor Expressions of Interest
to mean a public request, where more than one organization is welcome to
show interest.
Continuity has value, but I think it is up to the IASA to determine how
continuity is weighted against other factors.
Harald (who has only public knowledge at this point)
--On torsdag, mars 16, 2006 18:16:22 -0800 Carl Malamud <carl@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Carl -- did you get the other message (the one with
the timeline)?
Yes, I did. Not having been party to the discussions, I'm
not quite sure what is going on. We did a sole source
re-assignment of the IETF secretariat. As I said in my
note, I'm curious about:
1. the opinion from the RFC-Editor about this, in particular
the charter.
2. what the IAB/IAOC is thinking ... this could be a sole
source reassignment or a simple renewal.
I appreciate that a lot of thought obviously went into
preparing your two notes, I'd just like to hear some of
the background.
Best regards,
Carl
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