--On Monday, 02 May, 2005 18:26 -0400 Bill Sommerfeld
<sommerfeld@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:35, Ralph Droms wrote:
>> Let me restate for clarity - ADs aren't necessarily more
>> technically astute than *all* the rest of us. That is, we
>> need to be careful that technical input from ADs isn't
>> automatically assigned extra weight or control (veto power).
>
> Indeed. There will be very technically astute people involved
> in the IETF who don't want to serve as AD for any number of
> reasons (have other life-consuming things to do; don't want to
> deal with the "politics", etc.).
And some of us who periodically delude ourselves that we are
technically astute in at least a few areas have put in our time
as ADs and feel as if we have paid our dues and it is someone
else's turn. I certainly fall into that category. I can't
speak for Keith, Dave Crocker, and other former ADs who have
spoken up in this discussion, but I suspect...
So I want to pose a different, but related, pair of questions to
Bill, Ralph, and others:
(1) What would it take to convince you that putting in a term or
two as AD --not a life sentence, but a term or two-- was an
obligation you, as long-term participants and contributors, owed
the community?
(2) How, if at all, would the AD job have to change in order to
make volunteering on that basis plausible for you? Please
don't just answer "lower workload": if that is all or part of
the answer, what would you get rid of and what would you do with
it?
john
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