> Making the AD job smaller has been mentioned, Effort was expended in that direction while I was on the IESG but that effort failed (sadly). It would be good for the IETF community to understand those efforts and various people's impressions of why things failed. > but there are other > ways, including adding more Area Directors, splitting the Areas up > smaller, stopping the semi-automatic renewal of an AD for a second > term > I'd be very skeptical that any of the above would turn out well. On the one hand, I want to know why you think that. On the other hand, since you didn't bother to give reasons I'm not sure why I should care, either.