IAOC Call at 10:00 AM EDT, Thursday, September 29, 2005

Participants :

Lynn St. Amour
Brian Carpenter
Steve Crocker
Leslie Daigle
Ed Juskevicius
Kurtis Lindqvist
Lucy Lynch
Ray Pelletier
Jonne Soininen

Marshall Eubanks [scribe]

Jorge Contreras [IETF Counsel]
Brian Menkes [Guest]
Agenda - IAOC Call for 10:00AM EDT, Thursday September 29, 2005

Legal Issues

- Call w/CNRI/Jorge/Brian re: Trust and Tax Issues

IAD Report

- Report from Ray

 --IETF 65

Trust

- Debrief call from 9/27 re: Trust and IETF mailing (lel)

- Last Call on BCP101 update (brc)

NeuStar

- Update on Signing and additional documents (debrief of 9/26 call - Ray)

House Keeping

- Budget update (Ray/Lynn)

New Business

- IAD Evaluation Process (see Sec. 3 BCP 101)

Legal Issues

The IAD reported on a telephone conversation between himself, the IETF Counsel, and Brian Menkes of Hale and Dorr with Patrice Lyon and John Steward of CNRI about the proposed IETF Trust. The primary topic of discussion on the call was the tax implications of setting up the Trust.

IAD Report

–IETF 65
The IAD reported on the status of IETF-65 planning.

Trust

The IAOC Chair described a conversation she had with Robert Kahn of CNRI about the proposed IETF Trust.
The IETF Chair reported that the BCP 101 update was through last call and would shortly be dealt with by the IESG as part of the normal approval process.

NeuStar

This topic briefly discussed and then deferred as there was no new news.

House Keeping

The ISOC Board will be discussing the ISOC Budget during their meeting on October 29-30, and the IAOC is in the process of preparing the 2006 IAOC budget for presentation at that meeting. The IAD had sent a preliminary budget to the IAOC on the previous day, and various budgetary items and assumptions were discussed at length.

New Business

The IAOC Chair reminded the IAOC that it is now almost 6 months since the IAD was hired, and that it was time for his initial performance review.