--On Monday, 24 January, 2005 08:23 +0100 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 7 (Transparency): While I understand the desire for >>> transparency, there may be some contracts that contain items >>> that are justifiably >>> treated as confidential (such as individual performance >>> rewards, >>> terms of settlement of litigation). To address this point, I >>> might add the following words at the end of the penultimate >>> sentence: >>> ", subject to any reasonable confidentiality obligations >>> approved >>> by the IAD." >> >> Harald, given the general commitment in the community and >> document to transparancy whenever possible, I wonder whether >> the IAD should be empowered to do this or should, e.g., be >> required to report the terms and nature of what >> confidentiality obligations are being assumed to the IAOC so >> that they can review it as appropriate. Note that I'm not >> proposing disclosing the confidential information to them, >> but it seems to me to be reasonable to tell them the nature >> of what is being kept secret and why. > > hm. I could certainly argue that the IAOC should approve at > least the criteria that the IAD uses to determine that some > confidentiality is "OK", and could also argue that the IAOC, > being IASA oversight, ought to be able to look at all the > "confidential" parts of things if it needed to. > > We could move the approval up to the IAOC with no loss in > confidentiality, and with some gain in > transparency/accountability, I think. That would certainly be consistent with what I was suggesting. john _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf