The IESG charter process (Re: Definition of power and responsibility)

Margaret Wasserman mrw at windriver.com
Wed Mar 5 09:28:46 CET 2003



>The number of suggested changes has been relatively small. I've got an -02 
>version of the charter that I'm going to publish after San Francisco, and 
>thought that I'd do a 4-week Last Call after that, to see if there are 
>more issues that need to be raised.
>
>Since this is mainly documenting what we (the community and the IESG) 
>think that the role of the IESG is *currently*, there's only so many 
>changes that are worth folding in.

This seems quite reasonable.  If we want to make any changes to the
IESG charter at all (we haven't reached the point where we would
decide that, yet) it is important to have a documented baseline from
which to start.

>I fully expect the process that comes out of this WG to propose 
>redefinitions of the IESG's role, and resulting changes to the IESG's 
>charter - that's only natural; the current charter draft is a 
>"documentation of the status quo ante".

Sounds good.

Margaret





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