On 10/12/04 at 6:37 PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
Before we make strategic choices it is our responsibility. And that
means before we even go out for 'bids'.
If we only worry about the details after we have chosen the
contractor, we will probably choose the wrong contractor and we
certainly will not have any negotiating leverage.
You keep making a fundamental error in these discussions. If it's
intentional, it's a strawman. If it's unintentional, it's a basic
misunderstanding of the documents that have been put out:
Neither ISOC in scenario O nor the administrative corporation in
scenario C is "the contractor".
Let me repeat: ISOC is not the contractor.
ISOC, in scenario O, will hire the contractors to support the IETF
(according to IETF specifications). The structures we desire in ISOC
to do the hiring and (more importantly) facilitate communication of
those specifications between the IETF and ISOC are laid out in
scenario O.
The admin corporation, in scenario C, will hire the contractors to
support the IETF (according to IETF specifications). The structures
we desire in the admin corporation to do the hiring and (more
importantly) facilitate communication of those specifications between
the IETF and the admin corporation are laid out in scenario C.
Perhaps you think that we need the specifications about the job *the
contractors* will need to do before we decide *who it is that is
going to hire the contractors*. If that's true, I have found nothing
in your posts justifying that position. (Perhaps you think that we
can't figure out who is qualified to administer the contracts with
such contractors before we know what kinds of tasks are going to be
in the contracts, but I haven't seen you say that directly, and it's
not directly deducible from what you've said.)
But to continue to refer to ISOC (in the case of scenario O) as "the
contractor" is complete nonsense.
pr
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