Definition of power and responsibility
Jonne.Soininen at nokia.com
Jonne.Soininen at nokia.com
Tue Mar 4 13:37:28 CET 2003
Ran, Keith,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext RJ Atkinson [mailto:rja at extremenetworks.com]
> Subject: Re: Definition of power and responsibility
>
> On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 14:42 America/Montreal, Keith Moore wrote:
> >> One interesting thing I found when writing the IESG
> charter was that
> >> for almost every single piece of responsiblity or rule I
> felt I had to
> >> put in it, I could trace it back to an older document. And
> I left the
> >> pointers in there too, so anyone can check them out for him or
> >> herself...
> >
> > And yet people were demanding a charter on the assumption
> that IESG had
> > no basis for operating the way that it does.
>
> Wrong. The issue (explained to me many times by many
> different folks)
> was
> that the "limits" to IESG powers were not well defined.
>
Exactly. I think the boundaries (powers, and responsibilites) of the power should be better documented.
> The IESG Charter document should solve that problem. My suggestion
> (over 2 years back) to several IESG members was to write a charter
> (that gave
> the IESG broad powers, or gave it narrow powers, or gave it
> some other
> set
> of powers), but get some specific document through as a BCP. At the
> time,
> the IESG didn't consider that important.
Maybe it wasn't as urgent at that time as it is now. Anyways, better late than never!
Cheers,
Jonne.
>
> > When people don't bother to read the documentation that
> already exists,
> > I have to wonder if writing more documentation will help.
>
> That is not what happened, so your wondering is pretty needless.
>
> Ran
>
>
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