[Community] Concrete Example on somebody who would have joined NewOrg if it were there.

[Daniel Perry]

On Jul 4, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Brett McDowell wrote:

> Dan, don't you mean to say "IC as it stands today could not offer a  
> liability shield"...

I suppose that a radical transformation of IC could provide some kind  
of primary liability indemnification.

> because NewOrg could cover this.  Many umbrellas like NewOrg already  
> do this for their members.

I went to neworg.com - how is this an "umbrella"? It appears to simply  
be an outsourced governance.

> Concrete example: Liberty has this coverage for its Board members by  
> virtue of being a "member" of IEEE-ISTO.

You are conflating the board with the working groups. I better analogy  
would be a board to the Stewards Council.

> So this kind of insurance is cost effective and can scale down from  
> the umbrella org to the participating project leadership teams (in  
> our case it starts with IEEE-ISTO's Board and filters down to cover  
> the Liberty Alliance Management Board as well... the same is true  
> for all 12 IEEE-ISTO programs).

I'd have to know more about this before I could recommend it to the  
Stewards Council. Is there some contact person with IEEE-ISTO you can  
direct me to?

Dan Perry