Info/exptl RFCs [Re: Killing old/slow groups - transition thinking

RJ Atkinson rja@extremenetworks.com
Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:24:34 -0500


On Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002, at 19:58 America/Montreal, Randy Bush wrote:
>> Chairs who closely follow the group's email meanderings and constantly
>> attempt to focus the discussion, summarize points of agreement and
>> keep the group focussed on current activities tend to work effectively
>> and then hit the issue of a review bottleneck in the IESG.
>
> hypothesis: chairs who dilligently and rigorously manage their wg and
> its product on track with a well-thought-out charter hit much less
> delay in the iesg.

Was not the case with trying to get OTP documents advanced through the 
system,
despite the best efforts of Neil Haller.  And OTP was virtually a 
paragon
of WGs -- roughly zero acrimony, virtually all decisions made 
unanimously
by the WG, lots of running code, and widespread deployment.

Ran