Brian,
This is a fine document. Perhaps appropriately, it doesn't say
much of anything.
Is the actual trust agreement a secret, or does the IETF and
IASA intend to make it public before the IESG approves it? Will
there be an IETF Last Call that includes an opportunity to
review the document itself?
I note that the IASA web pages don't mention this at all except
for a paragraph under "Draft Agreements". That says
Proposed IPR Trust
The IAOC received on May 5th a new draft Trust Agreement from
CNRI and is in the process of preparing a response. The IAOC
expects that a revised Trust Agreement will be sent to CNRI in
early June
And is presumably a bit out of date, given comments in the
monthly report you circulated. And, referring to that report,
it also discusses new draft engagement agreements with Counsel
and other draft agreements which are not mentioned on the IASA
web site, much less available there.
I am sure all of this is fine, but the agreement with the
community when IASA was formed was that all of these things
would be public to the extent possible. To the extent to which
few or none of them appear to be available, and the IASA/IAOC
does not seem to be able to keep its own web pages current and
the community informed that way, rather than via just overview
monthly reports, I think it should be a matter of concern to all
of us.
john
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