Trusting the IESG to manage the reform process (was:Re:Doingthe Right Things?)

[john.loughney at nokia.com]

Hi Margaret,

2 points:

1) IESG overload. I think that this is a well known situtation

2) > And, there are even fewer people who are willing to do it...

This was the point I was asking if we have any way to measure it.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Margaret Wasserman [mailto:mrw at windriver.com]
> Sent: 07 June, 2003 17:46
> To: Loughney John (NRC/Helsinki)
> Cc: problem-statement at alvestrand.no
> Subject: RE: Trusting the IESG to manage the reform process
> (was:Re:Doingthe Right Things?)
> 
> 
> At 06:03 PM 6/4/2003 +0300, john.loughney at nokia.com wrote:
> > > Right.  With the growth of the IETF, the increase in complexity
> > > and scope of our work, etc. the job of an AD has become so
> > > large, time-consuming and complex that there are very few people
> > > who can do it.  And, there are even fewer people who are willing
> > > to do it...
> >
> >Do we have stats to back that up?
> 
> I don't have any statistics, per se, but there is quite a bit
> of supporting evidence:
> 
>          - Successive nomcoms have indicated that they've had
>                  trouble finding qualified people who are
>                  willing to serve on the IESG, and they have
>                  explicitly cited the time commitment as a
>                  serious issue.
>          - Members of the IESG have made presentations or
>                  comments at several IESG plenaries regarding
>                  the level of their workload, the number of
>                  pages of documentation they are expected to
>                  read per week, etc.
>          - Multiple IESG members have specifically stated,
>                  during the problem effort, that they are
>                  overloaded.
> 
> Margaret
> 
> 
>