[Chapter-delegates] Follow-up on Chapters Advisory Council Meeting of 17 September 2024

[Hank Nussbacher]

On 31/10/2024 13:30, Ted Hardie via Chapter-delegates wrote:

Perhaps some kind soul can create a hierarchy chart with all the 
organizations and supporting and supported organizations with arrows 
showing how they all are inter-related and who answers to whom,  for 
those of us who are not up on all the ISOC/IETF/IAB/Foundation history?

Regards,
Hank

> Hi Olivier,
>
> The context of our prior discussion was the role of supporting 
> organizations; my point was that the IETF Trust was not a supporting 
> organization in the legal sense, nor is its successor intended to be.  
> As the Trustees were formerly seated ex officio (I served when I was 
> chair of the Internet Architecture Board), there has indeed long been 
> a high overlap in membership with other bodies and, of course, a high 
> overlap in interests.  This does not imply control, just a recognition 
> of shared interest.  A parallel here might be the IAB sending a 
> delegate to the ICANN NomCom; that also doesn't imply that the IAB is 
> part of ICANN, just recognized to be a good source of insight into who 
> might serve well.
>
> You will see in the trust's historical finances records of donations 
> that did not come from ISOC or the IETF LLC.  I believe Google was one 
> of the donors, and Vint may be able to confirm that.
>
> If you would like to hear more about the Trust, the new organization, 
> and their work, I would be happy to invite their chair to give a talk 
> to the ChAC.
>
> regards,
>
> Ted Hardie