[ih] This Review is for Everyone

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 03:09:41PM -0500, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
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>'non-profit' seems entirely apt.

Quite apart from that, with essentially all the administrative responsibility controlled by bodies the members of which are mostly appointed by the IETF NomCom, with the disregarded entity structure of the IETF Administration LLC, with multiple staff members employed by IETF Administration LLC, with active fundraising efforts ongoing, and with a budget if memory serves some distance north of $10 MM annually, it's getting a little precious to maintain that the IETF isn't the organization--indeed, that the IETF isn't an organization at all--and that IETF Administration LLC is some other entity, accidentally named similarly but that _isn't_ the IETF.  I think this pose mostly worked as long as the IETF was an "organized activity" of the Internet Society, but I don't believe anyone can take it really seriously as a description of the facts of the world any more.

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A

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