Hi Adrian, On 03/17/2014 08:02 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: > - Should be IETF volunteers > - Should be more than one (he suggested 3) An option might be to have IETF volunteers who are backed up by professional advice that is on tap as needed, in the same way we deal with legal issues where e.g. IESG folk stumble along until we need Jorge, and then we call on him for help. I don't understand whether that set of options has been explored nor why it was seemingly rejected, if explored. (Its a set of options since there are various different ways in which the set of responsibilities might be split between the volunteers and the professionals.) I for one am quite uncomfortable with the idea that the ombudspersonage is an IETF participant (or a few such) with some probably minimal training. I think that approach just brings too much baggage to be workable. So did you consider that approach and if so why did you choose to reject it in this rev of the draft? S.