I am one of the people who communicated with Jay privately, and his replies to me privately, and here publicly completely align: What he said to me, is what he has said here. -George On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:07 PM Jay Daley <jay@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Rich > > On 11/03/2020, at 8:42 AM, Salz, Rich <rsalz=40akamai.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The IESG and the IRTF Chair have been assessing the viability of the in-person meeting based on the community’s ability to be productive. Assessment of health concerns has been the job of the LLC, on a separate track. > > > Could the LLC have cancelled the meeting? How separate were the tracks? The IESG didn't consider health concerns at all? > > To put it in common business terms, I think we're owed a root cause analysis of the full decision-making process by all parties. > > > Let me add to Adam’s helpful note, speaking only for the LLC here.. > > I certainly intend to have an internal debrief to identify any outstanding issues and lessons for next time and then share details of that and get comment. This is important as a number of decisions were made on the fly and we need to circle back to have those validated/challenged. For example, our decision to follow public health advice was made in the absence of a community decision and was maintained despite a few community members expressing very strong disagreement (largely in private). > > I don’t however see any benefit in producing the kind of detailed timeline of actions and decisions that is normally part of a root cause analysis. This is not a crash investigation so we don’t need to get forensic. > > Yes the LLC track was entirely separate and focused primarily on the health risk. I would welcome a discussion about the reasoning and decision making around this as part of the process outlined above. > > Finally, perhaps the most important thing to note about the decision making is that the IESG followed an evidence-based process, focused on their area of control and made a rational decision based on the data they collected.. That’s not easy in these circumstances. > > Jay > > -- > Jay Daley > IETF Executive Director > jay@xxxxxxxx > +64 21 678840 >
