AB4- Slides 4, 10 and 37, are confusing. In S4 it says IETF has no members,
but in S10 it says IESG members and other body members, also in S37 shows
that IESG is part of IETF. That may mean that IETF has members, so we cannot
say as in S4 that IETF has no members.
There's no conflict here, and your last sentence doesn't follow from the rest.
The IETF has "participants", not members. You are a participant,
simply because you participate. You didn't have to do anything to
become a member -- you don't have to pay anything, you don't have to
work for a member company, and so on.
The IETF has a set of administrative bodies that manage its process.
Those bodies have members, appointed from the set of IETF participants
through a defined process.
The IETF has no members. The administrative bodies do.
Barry