Harald == Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Harald Quoting from section 3:
The IASA will initially consist of a single full-time ISOC
employee, the IETF Administrative Director (IAD), who will be
an officer entitled to act on behalf of the IASA at the
it doesn't make sense to me. but then the corporate boards I have
served on (Unicode Consortium and .no registry) seem to function very much
in the mode of oversight and strategy direction - it would be bizarre for
either of those boards to attempt to create a budget; in both
I actually think everybody is in agreement. The ceo definitely
does the budget. There is no doubt about it. And, the paragraph
you quoted was actually one that is fine as is.
But, there are a few places in section 3, as Bernard pointed out,
that we're making some unnecessary distinctions
Correct, Carl. The issue is oversight -- who leads the committees that
review the financial statements and the IAD performance. Allowing the IAD
to lead the review of his/her own performance does not make sense.
And I'd also argue that while it is the IAD's job to come up with the
budget, that
--On torsdag, november 25, 2004 08:39:48 -0800 Bernard Aboba
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Correct, Carl. The issue is oversight -- who leads the committees that
review the financial statements and the IAD performance. Allowing the IAD
to lead the review of his/her own performance does not make
Bernard,
I don't agree with your terminology here.
--On 23. november 2004 23:32 -0800 Bernard Aboba [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In reading section 3, I believe that there are some issues with respect
to separation between the IASA and IAD responsibilities.
My overall comment on Section 3 is
Bernard -
Good comments. I went back and re-read section 3, and I agree
that it is somewhat unclear. (That's sometimes good, of course,
but probably not in this case).
From what I read, the idea is that the IAOC sets policy: it
has a large say in how finances are done, reporting to the IAOC
is
It seems to me that in most of section 3 where it says the
IAD shall, you could probably simply change that to the
IAOC shall. For example:
The IAD may constitute special-purpose, chartered committees to bring in
expertise (on topics such as finance, IETF process, or tools), to engage
In reading section 3, I believe that there are some issues with respect
to separation between the IASA and IAD responsibilities.
My overall comment on Section 3 is that co-mingles sections relating to
the responsibilities of the IAD and the IAOC. Since the IAOC
constitutes the management, while
