ADs who are also WG chairs

Hallam-Baker, Phillip pbaker at verisign.com
Fri Jul 4 11:12:06 CEST 2003


> ] Yes, I am aware that this limits decision making to people 
> who actually care
> ] enough to attend the con-calls. That is a good thing.
> 
> yeah, it makes it really easy for the WG leadership to 
> exclude anyone who doesn't
> get paid to do standards work.  WGs are too narrow already.

No, it limits the ability to decide on a standard to the people who have
sufficient time to make a contribution to the process.

Attending con-calls is a much smaller commitment than reading the drafts. I
don't know how to determine empirically who is reading the drafts though.

		phill


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