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Hi Leslie – Please see comments inline below.
Thanks, Jason From: LLC-Board <llc-board-bounces@xxxxxxxx> on behalf of Leslie Daigle <ldaigle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Jason, LLC Board, I wanted to follow up my comments at the mic last night in plenary. I asked what the strategic oversight imperative was behind your comment that the LLC Board was “simplifying contracts”; and, specifically, how you were translating that into a directive for your (eventual) Executive
Director. My point was not actually to argue whether the current contracts are perfect, or the merits/challenges of simplifying contracts.
Instead, my point was that what you described sounds awfully low level for the board to be engaging. Your reply suggested to me that you think it is obvious that simpler contracts are better and allow for less
(legal) exposure for the IETF, but that doesn’t actually address my point. [JL] This is about the strategic need to limit risk, and contain costs/complexity.
The IAOC was often accused of having gotten too operational in the administrative workings of the IETF. Among other things, moving to the LLC was meant to create an executive board that would be able to refrain from that sort of digging into the details. So, I think the answer I was hoping for was more along the lines of: We have (or will) outlined the issues of exposure due to complexity of contracts to the Executive Director, and look for their proposals for
addressing those exposures or motivating the complexity/identifying remediation paths.
That seems a lot more like the executive board identifying a (potential) strategic issue, and letting the implementors, who will actually hold the contracts and live with the contracts going forward, do the work. [JL] I believe we are aligned with what you hope to see. The Board asked the Executive Director to work with legal counsel to do all this.
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