1. Summary
draft-ietf-iana2-trust-rationale provides background for changes being made to
the IETF Trust. From the abstract:
The IASA 2.0 changes will have an impact on the IETF Trust because
members of the IET Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) IAOC,
which is being phased out, have served as Trustees of the IETF Trust.
This discussion document provides background on the current IETF
Trust arrangements, explains the effect of the rules in the founding
documents during a transition to a new arrangement, and provides a
rationale for the update.
draft-ietf-iana2-trust-update provides a discussion and overview of the
forthcoming changes to the IASA, including the elimination of the IAOC, and the
impact of those changes on the IETF Trust in particular. It records why the
decision was made to keep the IETF Trust intact, rather folding it into a new
structure associated with the IASA, and how Trustees will be selected in the
absence of the IAOC. It also gives some consideration to the timing of the
transition and the necessity of making certain the transition creates no
problems for the administration of the IETF Trust. The IASA2.0 WG requests its
publication as an Informational RFC.
2. Review and Consensus
This document was reviewed reviewed by the IASA2.0 WG. There was some
discussion during WGLC of whether this document should advance to Information
RFC or simply be allowed to expire. The group expressed a slight preference for
advancing the document, as it is referenced by draft-ietf-iana2-trust-update.
There were a few review comments from the WG that should be implemented before
this document becomes an RFC. It is anticipated that those changes will be
wrapped into the document with any last call comments. For example, the last
sentence of Section 1 now states that this document was not targeting RFC
status, which it clearly now is.
3. Intellectual Property
This document is not a protocol specification and it contains no technical
solutions that might require an IPR declaration.
4. Other Points
IDnits reports no significant issues with the document (it does lack a Security
Considerations and it has no considerations for the IANA, but it needs
neither). In particular, there are no normative downreferences from this
document.