Re: IETF Secretariat continues under new approach

"John Levine" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general
Organization Taughannock Networks
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It appears that Nick Hilliard  <[email protected]> said:
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>Alissa,
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>I've no insight into why the decision was made, but the AMSL contract 
>arrangement has been in place for nearly 20 years, which means that a 
>huge quantity of the IETF's administrative knowledge is - as I 
>understand it - subject to a retendering process every couple of years. ...

I'm not Alissa, but I didn't understand that to be what she was asking.

I don't understand what the EOR arrangement means in practice.  Does it
mean that the agreement now identifies specific people who are employed
by AMS and are assigned to or IETF?  Or something else?

R's,
John

PS:

>As a separate concern, many legal jurisdictions have changed their 
>positions about contract vs non-contract staff over the years. ...

AMS is in California, which has its own odd rules about contractors
and employees (with a special carveout for Uber, Lyft, and Doordash)
but I don't think that's at issue here.
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