On 10/4/21 1:04 PM, Salz, Rich wrote:
Making the AD job smaller has been mentioned, 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 and probably others.
Decades ago I became convinced that there's an inherent scaling limit to
IETF's structure; that there's a limit to how many WGs and Areas and
WGs/area the IETF could support even if you can scare up enough ADs.
At that time I believed the IETF had already past the point of
diminishing returns.
Since that time, significant efforts have been made, with some positive
results. For instance, area directorates are now much more effective
and useful.
And yet, I haven't seen anything to convince me that the fundamental
limits I saw in the late 1990s have been addressed, and overall I think
we are in worse shape now than we were then. (to be fair, the Internet
faces very different challenges now, so it's not an entirely fair
comparison.)
Keith
