Definition of power and responsibility

[Jonne.Soininen at nokia.com]

Ran, Keith,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext RJ Atkinson [mailto:rja at extremenetworks.com]
> Subject: Re: Definition of power and responsibility
> 
> On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 14:42 America/Montreal, Keith Moore wrote:
> >> One interesting thing I found when writing the IESG 
> charter was that
> >> for almost every single piece of responsiblity or rule I 
> felt I had to
> >> put in it, I could trace it back to an older document. And 
> I left the
> >> pointers in there too, so anyone can check them out for him or
> >> herself...
> >
> > And yet people were demanding a charter on the assumption 
> that IESG had
> > no basis for operating the way that it does.
> 
> Wrong.  The issue (explained to me many times by many 
> different folks) 
> was
> that the "limits" to IESG powers were not well defined.
> 

Exactly. I think the boundaries (powers, and responsibilites) of the power should be better documented.

> The IESG Charter document should solve that problem.  My suggestion
> (over 2 years back) to several IESG members was to write a charter 
> (that gave
> the IESG broad powers, or gave it narrow powers, or gave it 
> some other 
> set
> of powers), but get some specific document through as a BCP.  At the 
> time,
> the IESG didn't consider that important.

Maybe it wasn't as urgent at that time as it is now. Anyways, better late than never!

Cheers,

Jonne.

> 
> > When people don't bother to read the documentation that 
> already exists,
> > I have to wonder if writing more documentation will help.
> 
> That is not what happened, so your wondering is pretty needless.
> 
> Ran
> 
>