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Re: AdminRest: IASA BCP: Executive Director

2004-11-26 10:32:26
There is an obvious question that at least for me drives the answer to whther the IAD is the IETF Executive Director.

As currently practiced / defined, is the IETF Executive Director a full time job?

If it is a full time job, then clearly it should not be combined with the IAD. THis implies that we will need budgeting to contract / hire this person in addition to the IAD.

On the other hand, if this is not a full time job, it seems to make more sense to combine it with the IAD because there is a very large overlap in required knowledge. For example, If the IESG decides in their meeting to ask that the infrastructure group do something, the Exectuive director will know that immediately, and have the context of the discussion. If the IAD is a separate person, he will need a clear description of what needs to be done, and need to make sure the work is tracked properly in managing the contract with the infastructure provider.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 10:27 AM 11/26/2004, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
In draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-00.txt it states at the end of sect 3.1:

   Unless explicitly delegated with the consent of the IAOC, the IAD
   will also fill the role of the IETF Executive Director, as described
   in various IETF process BCPs.

We currently have (in our working version of the IASA BCP):

      Editors' note: The preceding paragraph has generated some
      comments, given that the role of the IETF Executive director is
      mentioned in a number of documents, some of which are fairly old
      and dusty.  The editors actively solicit feedback on whether this
      paragraph is ok as it stands.

We had some discussion in the IESG about this (because the IETF
Executive Director also interacts with the IESG basically on a
daily basis). I believe that in the IESG our current thinking is that
better text would be:

   The IETF Administrative Director (IAD) is not the same function
   as the IETF Executive Director.  The IESG shall select an IETF
   Executive Director (as defined in xxx, we need to fill out xxx).

Does the IETF community can agree with that?

Bert

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