[Fiware-oasc-etsi] WARNING: Agreement format was changed by ruling of ETSI Board - this means a delay and EGB + Orange asked to re-sign

[Lindsay Frost]

Dear all, my policy is to give news immediately, even if some changes may apply again shortly.

The immediate news I was given tonight (and I am  looking for solutions) is that the Agreement we were
given to sign (and EGB plus Orange already signed) is no longer valid, due to a change ordered by ETSI Board on 02.12.2016.

I know some of you are chasing down VPs to get signatures, so it is important for you to note that you
need to now WAIT for the new Agreement template, expected around 05 or 06 of January.

Why the delay? The slightly changed template will not be validated by ETSI lawyers until the first week of
January when they return from vacation.

How did this happen?  The ETSI Board agreed at their last session to extend the life of ETSI ISG MEC, using
special application of ETSI rules, and they simultaneously required to change the ISG Agreement Template,
but this was not communicated across the whole ETSI Secretariat and in particular not to Hermann.

DATES:

At this point, I am not prepared to trust any more estimates from ETSI, which appears particularly chaotic,
so I can only guess the earliest General Meeting date, assuming we can sign valid documents by
09.01 and the date for ETSI DG to send a Letter of Invitation is 10.01.2017. That puts the earliest date
of the first meeting at 09.02.2016. If we want to allow some more buffer we can assume 16.02.2017.

That still is ahead of the MWC in Barcelona starting 27.02.2017.

If there are no objections, I will assume we set  16.02 as the date, and I will start booking rooms (so that
does not become a problem later).

I pass along the deep regrets of Hermann, who has been a bit of a football in all of this... along with us.
I will phone him again tomorrow morning to see if he has meanwhile thought of any other solution.
best regards
Lindsay

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