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Re: Scope of labels (Re: Last Call Comments on draft-iasa-bcp-04.txt)

2005-01-18 02:39:42
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
(hmm... autocompletion seems to have done something wrong here... redirecting thread to ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_))

--On mandag, januar 17, 2005 08:51:19 -0500 Margaret Wasserman <margaret(_at_)thingmagic(_dot_)com> wrote:

WRT the ISOC standards pillar, I would say that that is ISOC's
business to decide; the IETF wants the work defined as "IASA" done,
and it's up to ISOC, not the IETF, whether it has any further use
for the name "standards pillar" after establishing IASA as a
distinct, accountable-for entity.


Under the ISOC responsibilities section of the document, the current BCP
states that ISOC should produce public quarterly and annual financial
statements for the "ISOC standards activity" (presumably meaning the ISOC
standards pillar?).  I don't have any fundamental objection to that, as
ISOC already produces public financial reports for all of its activities,
but the remainder of that paragraph seems (to me) to imply that the ISOC
standards activity and the IASA are one in the same.


That sounds wrong to me! The BCP should stick to requirements for the IASA activity, not go into anything else. (I think it's natural for ISOC to decide that its standards activity and IASA are one and the same - but I don't think the IETF should be the one that decides that!)

So in section 7, we have the only occurences (I think):

  Transparency: The IETF community shall have complete visibility into
     the financial and legal structure of the ISOC standards activity.
     In particular, a detailed budget for the entire standards
     activity, quarterly financial reports, and audited annual
     financial reports shall all be available to the IETF community.
     In addition, key contract material and MOUs shall also be publicly
     available.  The IAD and IAOC are responsible for providing regular
     overviews of the state of the IASA to the IETF community.

If this is only to speak to the IASA activity, it becomes:

  Transparency: The IETF community shall have complete visibility into
     the financial and legal structure of the IASA activity.
     In particular, a detailed budget for the entire IASA,
     quarterly financial reports, and audited annual
     financial reports shall all be available to the IETF community.
     In addition, key contract material and MOUs shall also be publicly
     available.  The IAD and IAOC are responsible for providing regular
     overviews of the state of the IASA to the IETF community.

Does this look right(er)?

Yes
   Brian


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