design team, was: Selecting leadership for process issues

[Jeanette Hofmann]

On 2 Dec 2002 at 8:59, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

> 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...

Provided a design team is an acceptable mechanism in this case, I'd suggest a 
glass door approach: let people watch what the design team is doing by archiving 
their mails and making them publically available. 

Jeanette

> 
> >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 
>