Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

Carl,

my impression as a bystander is that the IETF has decided that sole source 
contracts (where only one contractor is permitted to bid) are, in general, 
a Bad Idea.

The Secretariat contract had very special circumstances, which caused it to 
be sole sourced, but I interpreted the words from Leslie's timeline:

May 7 2006[IASA]
	Request for Vendor Expressions of Interest

to mean a public request, where more than one organization is welcome to 
show interest.

Continuity has value, but I think it is up to the IASA to determine how 
continuity is weighted against other factors.

        Harald (who has only public knowledge at this point)

--On torsdag, mars 16, 2006 18:16:22 -0800 Carl Malamud <carl at media.org> 
wrote:

> > Carl -- did you get the other message (the one with
> > the timeline)?
>
> Yes, I did.  Not having been party to the discussions, I'm
> not quite sure what is going on.  We did a sole source
> re-assignment of the IETF secretariat.  As I said in my
> note, I'm curious about:
>
> 1. the opinion from the RFC-Editor about this, in particular
> the charter.
> 2. what the IAB/IAOC is thinking ... this could be a sole
> source reassignment or a simple renewal.
>
> I appreciate that a lot of thought obviously went into
> preparing your two notes, I'd just like to hear some of
> the background.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Carl
>
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