It would be useful to distribute that written assessment from the insurance and liability folks to the list or at least publish it. The questions they answered are not necessarily the right questions and a simple binary indication of "we're all good" absent context isn't really informative or meeting the general goals of transparency the IESG is supposed to be upholding. Later, Mike And seriously, I asked this question months ago. Sent from my iPad > On Mar 9, 2015, at 15:50, Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > >> Has either or both of the ISOC and IETF trust lawyers reviewed this, especially section 5? > > We have asked for and received from outside counsel and the ISOC insurance folks a risk assessment. > > For what it is worth, we’ve been told that there’s probably also (more) risk associated with not having this procedure in place :-) > > In any case, after a discussion and feedback we revised some of the text in Section 2 and 5.1. From my perspective we are ready to move forward. > > Jari > >