[CWG-Stewardship] FW: [client com] IPR Memo

[Alan Greenberg]

I accept that friendly amendment and should have had a reference to 
it in my original note.

I agree on taking the path of least resistance which meets all of out 
mandatory goals.

Alan

At 10/08/2015 01:04 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:17:13PM -0400, Alan Greenberg wrote:
>
> > IANAPLAN proposals on this subject. To reaffirm this, and to discuss a
> > potential consolidated position, we have extended an offer to the 
> leadership
> > of the other two operational communities for a call on Tuesday, 7 July."
> > (Message from Jonathan Robinson, 02 July 2015). That, I presume, was the
> > basis for the ICG issuing its consolidated proposal.
>
>As I understand it, there was such a meeting and there will be more.
>But as I tried to say in Buenos Aires and again in my last message,
>meeting with "the leadership" of the numbers or protocol parameters
>community(ies) on this does not help at all if the plan is to do
>anything inconsistent with the proposal as published.  For (as I think
>you know) "the leadership" of those communities can only act as a
>conduit for taking things back to their respective communities.  The
>IETF in particular simply does not delegate people to speak for the
>IETF, except in extremely constrained ways (such as the IAOC for
>negotiating contracts).
>
> > Establishing an understanding with the IETF Trust so that the 
> details can be
> > completed as part of the implementation schedule is, in my mind, the number
> > one priority.
>
>I agree; though I would make a friendly amendment that, if the CWG
>thinks the IETF Trust is somehow unsuited (as for instance Avri has
>suggested) then with even greater urgency we need to get to work on
>the new trust organization or else figure out what minimal changes to
>the Trust agreement would put the names community at ease.  My view is
>that we need to pick the path of least resistance consistent with the
>ICG proposal.
>
>Best regards,
>
>A (for myself)
>
>--
>Andrew Sullivan
>ajs at anvilwalrusden.com
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