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IAOC != IETF Trust? [was: draft-hardie-iaoc-iab-update-00.txt]

2016-02-04 13:22:27
On one particular issue:
On 04/02/2016 18:01, John C Klensin wrote:
...
More important, the decision to
constitute the IETF Trust by making the Trustees the membership
of the IAOC occurred at a particular time and under particular
(perhaps even peculiar) circumstances.   The period during which
we couldn't change those arrangements expired years ago.  I
don't remember the issue being discussed, at least in recent
years, but it appears to me that, the occasional request to
create a derived work from an IETF document aside, most of the
responsibilities of the Trust and Trustees are strategic, which
most of the IOAC's rule is, as the name implies, administrative
functions, budgeting, and managing the IAD and other contractual
functions.  It appears to me that argues much more strongly for
separating the two than for making one less effective in order
to preserve the "same membership" relationship.

Logically that is certainly true, although membership of the
two bodies should probably overlap for practical reasons. However,
I think another (unwritten) argument back in 2005 was simply
to avoid adding yet another appointment process for the Trust,
twisting the arms of another set of volunteers, and so on. That
argument still seems valid.

    Brian

P.S. I don't remember an anointment ceremony either. It was more
like baptism by fire.

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