Brian, On Apr 14, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > John, > > On 2011-04-15 01:10, John C Klensin wrote: > ... >> But, remembering that the IASA has only the purpose of making >> the extended IETF (including the IAB) work more efficiently, I >> see a somewhat different question. The roles and resource >> requirements of the IAB and IETF Chairs have expanded >> dramatically over the last several years.. > > We really need to understand that better, and the underlying > reasons for it, in some detail. I don't think that cherry-picking > parts of the jobs to be delegated should be the starting point. > We really need to start by reviewing all the tasks together and > then decide what should be changed. I'd really like to hear from > Olaf, Bernard and Russ what has changed in the workload in the > last few years. You are of course correct that if the workload > is constantly increasing, it will make NomCom's task very hard. > > Certainly the IASA/IAD/IAOC reorganisation produced a noticeable > reduction in the IETF Chair workload, but what has changed since > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-carpenter-ietf-chair-tasks-00 ? > It would be good to have a similar analysis for the IAB chair role. +1 If there is a systemic problem, let's talk about that before proposing point solutions. The overload problem also affects other leadership positions such as the IESG AD members. Bob _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf