What level of turnover do you think would be healthy? And what would be the impacts of having more new ADs each year?
My personal preference would be an average of 4 to 6 years. You have to ensure turnover for multiple reasons: even if you have the best intentions, power does corrupt, attention fades, you get disconnected from your peers, you develop an us versus them attitude, etc. I don't necessarily believe in term limits, but remaining in an AD position for more than 8 years feels very unhealthy.
I agree with you, but I think we may be discussing a serious problem that has already been solved. By my (possibly inaccurate) count, he current IESG members have been serving for the following lengths of time:
Brian Carpenter, new Ted Hardie, 2 years Scott Hollenbeck, 1 year Mark Townsley, new Margaret Wasserman, 1+ years David Kessens, 2 years Bert Wijnen, 7 years Bill Fenner, 3+ years Alex Zinin, 3 years Sam Hartman, < 1 year Russ Housley, 2 years Allison Mankin, 5 years (plus 4 years previously) Jon Peterson, 2 year
So, only one AD has been serving sequentially for longer than your proposed 4-6 year period, and this group of 13 people has been served on the IESG for a total of 33 years, or an average of ~2-1/2 years per AD.
Contrast this with the IESG from two years ago (March 2003) with their lengths of service as of that date:
Harald Alvestrand, 2 years (plus 4 years previously) Steve Bellovin, 1 year Scott Bradner, 10 years Randy Bush, 4 years Patrik Faltstrom, 5 years Bill Fenner, 1+ years Ned Freed, 3 years Allison Mankin, 3 years (plus 4 years previously) Thomas Narten, 6 years Erik Nordmark, 4 years Jeff Schiller, 9 years Bert Wijnen, 5 years Alex Zinin, 1 year
These 13 people has served (as of March 2003) on the IESG for a total of 62 years, or an average of ~4-3/4 years per AD.
Only 4 of these 13 ADs who were severing in March 2003 are still serving 2 years later, so we have seen a turnover of approximately 70% of the ADs in a two year period.
Do you actually think that we need an even higher turnover? Or are you pointing out an historical problem which may have been corrected over the past two years?
Margaret
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