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

[Randy Bush]

> In particular, the question is to what extent the chair's
> job is to exercise substantive leadership as opposed to
> simple procedural leadership. In my experience, chairs
> often feel that their job is to reflect the consensus of
> the WG, regardless of whether they personally agree with
> it.

if wg chairs were purely to turn the process crank, we would
hirte clerks from starbucks for $5/hr to do it, not bust our
guts to find highly-talented engineers and designers to do
the job.

randy