General comment on draft-ietf-problem-statement-00.txt

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

--On lørdag, mars 01, 2003 12:25:16 -0600 Pete Resnick 
<presnick at qualcomm.com> wrote:

>> It's not unusual for an AD to say "I trust the ADs in that area to do due
>> diligence in fixing that document".
>
> Why is it then that AD's are not inclined to say "I trust the chair of
> that working group to do due diligence in fix that document"? Perhaps
> this indicates another problem, that we do not have adequately qualified
> WG chairs that ADs can trust to do the real review (cf. 2.6)? This does
> seem like an area where "too much concentrated authority" (lack of
> delegation) is part of the problem. (2.4)

in many cases, the AD who finds a problem has no idea who the person is 
whose name is on the WG charter, so he doesn't have any basis on which to 
trust him/her. remember that the set of WG chairs is more than 200 strong.

The AD finding a problem trusts the AD who manages the WG to know whether 
the WG chair can be trusted to find a solution to the identfied problem or 
not. Delegation of trust....

                    Harald