Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

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Bob, Olaf,

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 05:27:11PM +0300, Bob Hinden wrote:
> 
> To repeat what I said, I didn't see the new draft resolving issues that I
> and other raised on the list. The new draft is a different approach, but as
> Leslie pointed out, it might be worse. In the old draft, the I* chairs were
> allowed to appoint someone to represent them, in the new one they are
> non-voting advisors. Busy people being busy, will tend to not follow or
> attend the meetings. Many small decisions can have unintended consequences.

I reviewed the new draft and I agree with Leslie and Bob that the new draft
seems to be a step in the wrong direction.

The critical thing is that we don't loose the participation of the IETF
chair, IAB chair and ISOC President/CEO while at the same time finding a way
to lighten their workload.

>From the discussion we had on the previous draft, it seemed to me that
a differentation between these positions is actually very important.

There was very little support to have the IETF chair delegating the full job
of his/her IAOC membership. At the same time, there were much less strong
feelings about this for the IAB chair and ISOC CEO/president.

I agree with the sentiment that the IETF chair should remain a full voting
member of the IAOC. 

However, I don't object if the IETF chair would have a designated backup for
the voting role when he/she cannot attend to IAOC business. I believe it
would be useful for the designated backup to be a non voting permanent IAOC
member in order to make sure the backup understands what is going on.
However, the important thing is that the vote is still a vote that the IETF
chair is responsible for.

Furthermore, I am not sure whether there is a real need to do a similar
setup for the Trust as well.

And finally, for full disclosure, I have been present myself at IAOC
meetings as a guest from the IAB. This allowed for an IAB perspective to be
present when the IAB chair couldn't make it to the IAOC meetings but of
course I had no voting power etc. I'll leave it up to the current IAOC
members and the IAB chair to comment on that experience.

David Kessens
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