Hi, On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 01:56:41PM -0500, Greg Shatan wrote:
But to my mind, it is expedient rather than preferable.
I won't speak for the IETF Trust, but speaking as a Trustee I can say that _I_ think it is expedient rather than preferable, too. Given that whatever we do has to be completely sewn up in time for a transition in Q4 of 2016 (i.e. roughly 10 months from now), I think that "expedient and workable" ought to be a high-value qualifying criterion.
​Actually, I think it would be quite helpful. Furthermore, I don't think that there are significant economic or resource differences between working up an arrangement with the IETF and working up an arrangement for a new trust.
You are suggesting is that hammering out a new trust agreement among three operational communities that will specify a new governance structure, and then hammering out all the other issues that one needs in an agreement, will take no more time than just doing the second of those things. I would like to know why you think that. It's certainly true that setting up a new trust is the work of an afternoon for a competent lawyer. But I don't think that's the hard part here. Given that we've had months to tackle this question and haven't yet even agreed amongst ourselves what principles should apply, I cannot say I'm optimistic that setting up a completely new legal entity in collaboration with two other communities -- both of which have to go through their own consensus processes in order to agree to do it -- will be the fast path. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@anvilwalrusden.com