On 25/06/2019 15:18, Michael Richardson wrote:FWIW, personally I don't like that employee idea at all for reasons
discussed on the iasa2 list. At least not with the current RFC editor
model - I think the community would have to have first reached
consensus on an RFC editor model 3 but maybe that's what you meant.
What if the IETF were to support a position at a university, that was the RSE?
How would you feel about that?
(I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it yet, it just occured to me)
Assuming that it wasn't an appointment for life, ora prof/chair-like position that a nominated universitychose the person to fill, then I don't see how that'sdifferent from just appointing someone who happens tobe employed by a university to be the RSE via an RFPaccording to the current process.
A lifetime position means they *can* act without fear of reprisal. (whether they do or not is quite different)
Not everyone who works at a university is in the tenure track, in fact most are not (instructors, research faculty, staff, not to mention grad students).
That goes for most people who actually teach at universities too (many of which aren’t even full-time).
And even tenured faculty can lose contracts in ways that tenure has no influence.
Joe
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