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

[Randy Bush]

>>> what we need is for the ADs to delegate authority to individuals
>>> who would act on their behalf in specific situations.
>> 
>> is that wg chairs or document reviewers, both of which we have?
> 
> Certainly not document reviewers, and I would argue that in
> the current environment, not chairs.
> 
> The issue, as I said earlier, is one of authority. In order to reduce
> load on the AD, there has to be someone who is able to make their own
> decisions without involving the AD and has the authority to back them
> up (like the AD does). Now, it's often claimed that chairs have this
> authority but in my experience they are reluctant to independently
> exercise technical judgement in the face of WG consensus.
> 
> Reviewers, on the other hand, have the mandate to exercise judgement,
> but in practice the only person who can say "no" is the AD and so even
> in the best case the AD has to be hovering around to lend the reviewer
> the air of authority. In the worst case, the AD is a choke point
> between the reviewer and the WG. In neither case does this do that
> much to reduce the load on the AD.

while you can delegate autority, you can not delegate responsibility.
  -- manglement 101