Subject: [Iasa20] meeting and path forward

From: "Peterson, Jon" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:42:13 +0000

Thanks to everyone who took some time away from the technical work here to attend the IASA 2.0 meeting yesterday in London.

I have copied Michael Richardson’s minutes from the etherpad into the tracker. (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/minutes-101-iasa20/) If you were unable to attend, please do give them a read. Thanks as well to Corrine for providing a second set of minutes.

The sense we took of the room strongly favored forming an ISOC subsidiary. We then had some further discussion of the respective merits of forming a Type I Supporting Organization versus an LLC (the “disregarded entity”) option. Special thanks to Brad Biddle for helping to clarify some of the finer legal distinctions. Ultimately, there seemed to be enough people in the room who felt that they had a grasp on the issues for us to take a hum on the two choices, which favored the LLC option by a substantial margin.

We then circulated some proposed charter text for how we might proceed on a BCP 101 revision following this path. If people on the list who were not able to participate in the meeting feel this is not the appropriate course of action for the IETF, please let’s discuss further.

Jon Peterson
Neustar, Inc.