--On Friday, December 7, 2018 11:16 +0000 "Deen, Glenn
(NBCUniversal)" <Glenn.Deen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The Interim Board is deferring as many decisions as possible
> to the full board to take up when it is seated in March.
> However the administrative tasks to support the IETF didn't
> go away with the shutdown of the IAOC, as well there are a
> number of timely responsibilities for the IETF LLC that come
> with the IASA 2 transition and the upcoming year end. Meaning,
> there are a number of items which must be either addressed, or
> put into motion before the full board is seated.
>
> The iETF LLC is an active entity that has responsibilities
> that it needs to deal with that cannot be deferred, that's
> why the current Interim board was necessary and was put into
> place while the full board selection process was conducted.
> The interim board is operating under the mode of deferring as
> much as is possible to the full board, but the interim board
> does have the duty to make sure the LLC is meeting its legal,
> financial, and operating responsibilities and dealing with
> IASA 2 transition related duties.
>
> There are contracts which have been held by ISOC which are
> transitioning to the LLC, some of which come with issues that
> must be dealt with now.
>
> There are financial tasks including transfers from ISOC to the
> LLC which are happening before year end that need to be dealt
> with now as the LLC is responsible for paying our bills
> associated with those transitioned contracts. There are also
> future IETF meeting issues that need to be addressed now that
> would have previously been dealt with by the IAOC.
>
> Finally, there are topics such as RFPs that will be decided by
> the full LLC board, but which we need to start the RFP process
> for now because there are contracts which expire very shortly
> after the full board is expected to be seated and it would be
> irresponsible to dump it on the incoming board to attempt to
> properly run a well run RFP process in the short window
> between seating and the contract expiry date.
>
> Decisions which can be responsibly deferrable are being
> deferred, and in other cases where a decision needs to be made
> now we have been trying to leave flexibility where possible
> for the full board to make changes after they are seated.
Glenn,
Thanks for this answer, it is much appreciated.
At the same time, during this transition and start-up phase and
while the IASA2 WG continues to tune documents and procedures,
the community has (and should have) a higher level of desire
(and need) to scrutinize how things are being handled than it
likely will after things settle down.
Especially because you are handling all of next week's agenda
without remote participation (a decision I am not going to try
to second-guess although I share the concerns of Bob and
others), I think that, in the interest of transparency, it would
be helpful if someone could go through the agenda, identify the
specific reasons why each topic cannot be deferred, and post
those explanations. That seems to me to be particularly
important given, as has been discussed, the community has even
less capability to force a review or otherwise intervene in LLC
Board decisions than it did in IAOC ones.
thanks,
john
