Re: FYI: 3979 update

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Fri, 19 January 2007 17:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: FYI: 3979 update
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On 2007-01-19 15:03, Thomas Narten wrote:
>> The update reflects the split of roles - in the Ancient Days, the IETF 
>> Executive Director and the head of the Secretariat were the same person, 
>> and had no formal responsibility towards the IETF.
> 
> IMO, having to update our document to reflect these kinds of details
> is unfortunate. It is clear that the intent should be that the
> "secretariat function" (broadly defined) should make something happen
> in this case.
> 
>> In the post-IASA world order, Ray Pelletier is IETF Executive Director, 
>> and reports to IAOC; the secretariat is headed by an employee of Neustar 
>> Secretariat Services, and is under contract with ISOC.
> 
> To some extent, it's Ray's job/role to see that the above gets done by
> the "secretariat function", though I don't think the details need to
> be specified in detail in a standards track document.
> 
> Can we come up with generic language that doesn't get to specific job
> titles? And that doesn't need updating if the details of the
> individual roles internal to NSS change?

At least as far as the BCP's in this WG's purview go, I believe
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