Selecting leadership for process issues

[Kurt D. Zeilenga]

At 04:37 AM 2002-12-02, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>One issue I've been thinking about:
>
>what's an appropriate way to select the people to lead the effort to rethink the IETF?
>
>At the moment, I think we know the following:
>
>- We need someone who is not the current leadership to take charge of the process

Yes.  It takes a person with special qualities to manage
the process without letting ones own agenda influence the
outcome.  The person must also be well respected, not an
insider, not an outside, experienced in the process and
culture, approachable, and articulate.

>- We need an open forum (most likely called a WG) to get input into the process and discussion among people

It should be a WG as WGs have well establish operating guidelines
(RFC 2418).

>- We need some kind of work team to make sense of the input and do the heavy lifting on drafting the problem statements and (eventually) proposed solutions.

Sounds like a design team...

>But how should we get this structure into place, and who should man it?

I suggest you pick a chair (or two) who you believe has the
necessary qualities to run this WG so we can get this thing
rolling.

Kurt