--On Saturday, January 25, 2025 14:13 -0500 "Andrew G. Malis"
<agmalis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> LL,
>
> Being a WG chair seems like hard work. Executing well on the
> objectives in
>> RFC 7282 doesn't always seem like the easiest thing.
>
>
> That's quite correct, but we WG chairs also have ADs to provide
> assistance and advice (and sometimes correction) when necessary.
> There's also a good reason why many WGs have more than one chair,
> and chairs from other WGs help each other out as well (there's a
> WG-chairs list that's sometimes used to discuss such issues). So
> chairs aren't just working in a vacuum.
Andy,
No disagreement, but sometimes those things don't work, especially
when ADs end up with enough WGs that it is hard to pay special
attention to any of them and (perhaps as a result) the IESG responds
to issues/problems by saying "we trust our WG Chairs" rather than
intervening or helping.
john
