Sloppy Charters (was: Re: Discipline of Internet Protocol Engineering)

[Spencer Dawkins]

Yeah, I'm kind of depressed by the lack of feedback from ADs on
current AD workload. How would the rest of us know?

But to focus on the documents - the problem resolution draft is
fairly explicit in section 4.5 about the "huge time commitment" required
to serve on IESG, in the context that this seriously reduces the pool
of potential leaders for NOMCOM.

I'm talking about the bullet that begins

     "- The current organization of the IETF does not scale. "

Could we hear from some other people who have been in this role? Are
we (the editorial team) just making this up, or is this really an issue?

Spencer, who is unpleasantly surprised that he can't find text in the
problem draft on this specific point... 2.5.1 says "very large load
of responsibility", but doesn't say "TOO large".

----- Original Message -----
From: "John C Klensin" <john-ietf at jck.com>
To: <john.loughney at nokia.com>; <problem-statement at alvestrand.no>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 11:17 AM
Subject: RE: Sloppy Charters (was: Re: Discipline of Internet Protocol
Engineering)


>
>
> --On Friday, 06 June, 2003 19:05 +0300 "john.loughney at nokia.com"
> <john.loughney at nokia.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am not thinking of my AD in particular, but also the IESG in
> > general.  As I've edited documents in several areas, I've
> > noticed a general tendancy that the IESG has many balls to
> > juggle, and  engaging chairs / editors in technical things
> > tends to fall  (unless it is a discussion during IETF last
> > call).
>
> And, personally, I believe _that_ problem has no solution at all
> unless and until a majority of the IESG are ready to stand up
> and say "we are seriously overloaded, and we are ready to do
> something about it.  We understand that starts with accepting
> the fact that we really can't do everything and then moves on to
> being willing (and anxious) to look closely at any proposal that
> might plausibly reduce load."  I've heard things pretty close to
> that (and pretty consistently) from Harald.  But most of the ADs
> have appeared to me to have been largely silent or to accept the
> status quo.
>
> And, again, I don't think the community gives nearly enough
> support to those who push back, which encourages and reinforces
> all sorts of bad behavior patterns.
>
>     john
>