This report is provided in advance of IETF103 for the purpose of giving the
community more detail on the work of the IETF Administration LLC as well as the
final report from the IAOC.
The IETF Administration LLC Board of Directors and IAOC will present a
consolidated version of this at the IETF103 Plenary. Please bring any questions
you have to the IETF103 plenary or send them to the IETF LLC Board at
llc-bo...@ietf.org.
New IETF meeting fees and registration process
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IETF103 is the first meeting held under the new meeting fee structure:
$700 Early Bird rate up to 7 weeks before
$875 Standard Rate up to 2 weeks before
$1000 Late Rate after 2 weeks before
$150 Student Fee
$375 One Day Pass
IETF103 registration patterns were very different from prior meetings with many
participants taking advantage of the new Early Bird rate.
The registration process was also updated for IETF103 to require meeting fees
be paid by new attendees prior to Letters of Invitation being available. While
there were a few initial operational bugs in the updated system that were
encountered by a few registrants during Early Bird registration, the
Secretariat responded quickly and resolved the bugs allowing for a smooth
registration process for IETF103 attendees.
As of the cut off for the Standard Rate registration deadline, the Early Bird
and Standard registrations for IETF103 were:
423 Early Bird registrations
229 Standard Rate registrations
The projected IETF103 attendance is 900 which will include Late Rate, Students,
and One Day Pass registrations which are not reflected in the above numbers.
Additional registration information and stats will be presented at the IETF103
Plenary.
IETF103 Thailand Visas
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Thailand is a new location for the IETF; though it has successfully hosted
many international technical conferences, it is new to most IETF attendees.
One area of concern had been what visas IETF attendees from around the world
would require to attend IETF103. Working with the local Thailand Conference
and Event Bureau (TCEB) we were able to have IETF103 declared an official MICE
event (Meetings Incentive Conventions Exhibitions) including a letter for
attendees from the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau which greatly
helped clarify that IETF103 attendees qualify for the visa requirements for
MICE attendees.
IETF106 Singapore
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Singapore has been chosen as the location for IETF106 in November 2019, and due
to the heightened discussion around IETF100 we would like to provide some
context around this decision.
We chose Singapore to meet our 1-1-1 (Europe-North America-Asia) meeting
rotation goal, and Singapore was selected because when compared to the other
Asia meeting location choices evaluated and having availability for the IETF106
dates the IAOC concluded Singapore was the best overall of the available
choices. Before making this decision, the IAOC also carefully reviewed the
comments made about Singapore in response to the IAOC’s call for venue city
input, the post meeting survey results from IETF100, and evaluation of
Singapore against the Meeting Venue Selection draft-16 criteria.
The IETF100 post meeting survey respondents submitted the following overall
rating of the meeting location:
Excellent: 49.11% (83 respondents)
Very Good: 27.81% (47)
Good: 16.57% (28)
Fair: 5.33% (9)
Poor: 1.18% (2)
An important issue cited by several respondents to the post IETF100 survey was
the cost to attendees. Noting this we worked hard to negotiate the November
2019 IETF106 hotel room rates to be the same as we paid at IETF100 in 2017
keeping guest room rates flat despite the 2 year difference and bucking the
global trend of hotel room rates surging upward.
IASA2.0 and IETF Administration LLC
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A major milestone of the IETF Administrative Support Activity 2 working group,
led by chairs Jason Livingood and Jon Peterson, was achieved on August 27 when
the legal documents creating the IETF Administration LLC were signed and filed
in Delaware. This established the IETF Administration LLC as a distinct legal
entity with its own bank accounts, ability to sign legal contracts, raise
funds, and hire staff.
The IETF Administration LLC, or IETF LLC as many casually refer to it, is
structured as documented in the IASA2 WG Draft
(https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-iasa2-struct.txt) and replaces the IAOC and
the IAD with the new IETF LLC Board of Directors and the new IETF Executive
Director roles.
The interim IETF LLC Board of Directors consisting of the Chairs of the IESG
(Alissa Cooper), the IAB (Ted Hardie), the IAOC (Glenn Deen) and the ISOC Board
of Trustees (Gonzalo Camarillo) was seated and will serve until the first full
board is seated. Glenn Deen was elected chair by the interim Board at its
first meeting.
The board can be contacted at llc-bo...@ietf.org and the chair can be contacted
at llc-board-ch...@ietf.org.
The selection process to fill the full board is underway with 3 members to be
selected by the IETF NOMCOM, 1 member by the IESG, and 1 member by the ISOC
Board of Trustees. The first full board is expected to be seated by IETF104 in
March 2019.
More information about the IETF LLC Board of Directors is available on the IETF
LLC Board page (https://ietf.org/about/groups/llc-board/) including meeting
minutes and information about upcoming IETF LLC Board meetings. In the
interest of transparency, one of the first decisions made by the board was to
open board meetings to observers, so please attend if interested.
The LLC Board is focused on completing the transition from the IAOC. The
immediate priority has been establishing financial accounts and accounting
procedures; beginning work on an investment policy and selecting an investment
manager; reviewing proposals for insurance, legal, and accounting practices
under the LLC; and finalizing the 2019 IETF Budget.
IAD and IETF Executive Director
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The IETF LLC Agreement calls for the role of an IETF Executive Director. Our
current interim IETF Administrative Director (IAD), Portia Wenze-Danley, is
serving as interim Executive Director. The first full board will conduct a
recruitment search for a permanent executive director next year. Portia can be
reached at exec-direc...@ietf.org
The IASA2.0 creation of the new role of IETF Executive Director meant that
there was a conflict with the existing title of IETF Executive Director which
was Alexa Morris. To fix this, Alexa’s new title is now Managing Director IETF
Secretariat.
IAOC
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With the establishment of the IETF LLC, the IAOC (IETF Administrative Oversight
Committee) is being shut down as the IETF LLC assumes the responsibilities
previously performed by the IAOC. Most IAOC work including IETF meeting venue
selection, oversight of the IETF Executive Director, financial management, and
the IETF 2019 budget have already been transferred to the IETF LLC. The IAOC
will be formally disbanded once the IETF Trust rules have been updated to
remove the current requirement that IETF Trustees be members of the IAOC in
order to serve. The needed changes to do this are undergoing the review
process and are expected to be complete very shortly.
Thank you to the IETF IAOC members for their work on both the IAOC and on the
hand off work to the IETF LLC: Ted Hardie, Alissa Cooper, Kaveh Ranjbar, John
Levine, Lou Berger, Portia Wenze-Danley, Andrew Sullivan, and Glenn Deen.
IETF 2019 Budget
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The IAOC has completed its work on the IETF 2019 budget and has submitted it as
a recommendation to the IETF LLC Board of Directors which is reviewing it and
working on finalizing the budget. This is expected to be completed by the end
of IETF103. Additional budget information will be published once it is
completed and adopted.
Upcoming meetings
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IETF104 March 23-29, 2019 in Prague - CZ.nic (TBD Co-host)
IETF105 July 20-26, 2019 in Montreal - hosted by Comcast & NBCUniversal
IETF106 November 16-22,2019 in Singapore
IETF107 March 21-27, 2020 in Vancouver
IETF108 July 25-31,2020 in Madrid hosted by Ericsson
Please contact Ken Boyden (kboy...@ietf.org) if you are interesting in
sponsoring at any level one of the upcoming IETF meetings.
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Thank you
Glenn Deen, on behalf of the IAOC(as Chair) and on behalf of the IETF
Administration LLC Board of Directors(as Chair)
