Harald,
I have serious moral concerns accepting your response below.
At 10:10 31/01/2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
3. Regional representation. Most of the Internet organizations make sure
their BoD is regionally distributed. This is not appropriate for a
technical entity, however IAOC is an administrative body. I would suggest
the Draft Section 4 to include a recommendation (not an obligation) that
all the main parts of the world are represented at the IAOC. Cost: 2
lines to be added.
The IAOC is an administrative body for a technical entity. So "not
appropriate" applies.
This answer would only make sense if technical competences were required
due to the technical nature of the entity.
But the Draft says: "While there are no hard rules regarding how the IAB
and the IESG should select members of the IAOC, such appointees need not be
current IAB or IESG members (and probably should not be, if only to avoid
overloading the existing leadership). The IAB and IESG should choose
people with some knowledge of contracts and financial procedures, who are
familiar with the administrative support needs of the IAB, the IESG, or the
IETF standards process."
This means that no technical competence is required. But legal and
financial abilities are required. These abilities are required to contract
tasks all over the world. I therefore asked that ISOC Chapters are possibly
called upon to assist. Your response is:
The IETF has never attempted to have an organization along geographical
lines. ISOC has such an organization, but that bears no formal
relationship with the standards process. This document is not about
changing the standards process.
You object again on technical grounds. Yet the need is not for technical
but for legal and financial competences. The Internet standard process has
nothing to do with legal local competence, or wise assistance in selecting
a local contractor or cutting a good and cheaper contract.
The concern is that you do not want to use the ISOC capacity to better
legally and financially manage/advise the IASA, also that you favor the
possibility to influence the choice of contractors location through the
choice of IAOC members. I think there is there a source of COI and protests
for lack of transparency.
I therefore insist for the above paragraph to be slightly modified in using
"[The IAB and IESG should chose] people from the various regions of the
world [with some knowledge of contracts ....]".
Please, consider that this document will probably not be reviewed before a
few years and that such issues which will gain importance over the coming
years would be far more difficult to address as a specific update than
through a Draft amendment.
jfc
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