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Re: admin director (was The other parts of the report..)

2004-09-10 07:27:22


--On Friday, 10 September, 2004 08:49 -0400 scott bradner
<sob(_at_)harvard(_dot_)edu> wrote:


imo we should start a search for a Administrative Director now

Good idea, except...

        * We have only the vaguest of job descriptions
        
        * We don't know who the individual would actually be
        working for organizationally, which could make a
        difference in who would be interested
        
        * We don't know enough about organizational structure to
        be able to have a serious discussion about benefits,
        etc., which could make a difference.  We don't even
        know, for sure, if we have budget for salary, since that
        presumably would need to be approved by the Board of
        ISOC and/or the hypothetical foundation.
        
        * We can't make any assurances about how long the job
        commitment is good for, because we don't have a
        structure to put around it.  

And, with regard to the "contractor" question, there are two
ways of doing "contractor":

        (1) The individual is hired as an independent
        contractor, and hence is responsible for his or her own
        insurance, benefits, taxes, etc., but is otherwise
        essentially an employee.  In particular, we select the
        individual who is going to be in the role.  The problem
        with those models is that sometimes the taxing
        authorities don't like them and pronounce words that, in
        US-speak are "statutory employee".  Those are _very_ bad
        words; for an explanation contact your friendly attorney
        or accountant.
        
        (2) We hire a company to supply us someone.  Problem is
        that, at the bottom line, they pick the someone. 

Neither of these are consistent with the level of control which
the IETF leadership (or their spokespeople) think they need.  Of
course, that is another unresolved issue.

Sorry.

      john


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