Re: IETF Secretariat continues under new approach

John C Klensin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general
Message-ID <9C7870C1655768DF495EEEDA@PSB>

--On Thursday, April 9, 2026 21:23 -0400 John Levine
<[email protected]> wrote:

> It appears that Nick Hilliard  <[email protected]> said:
>> -=-=-=-=-=-
>> 
>> Alissa,
>> 
>> 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.

And, IIR, the retendering every couple of years is, in the history of
those decades, a relatively recent procedure.   In any event, I don't
understand that to be what she was asking either.

>...

best,
   john
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