RE: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

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We had such a WG-Chairs session dedicated exactly to this topic (document shepherding) at IETF-82 - including a panel of document shepherds and ADs sharing experience and discussing ways to improve the process and make the shepherds role more efficient. 

Dan




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Alia Atlas
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 1:12 AM
> To: Benoit Claise
> Cc: John Leslie; IETF IETF
> Subject: Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director
> 
> Perhaps even dedicate a WG-Chairs lunch meeting to it?  I think the role
> has grown over the years.
> 
> Alia
> 
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Benoit Claise <bclaise@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 4/03/2013 15:57, John Leslie wrote:
> >>
> >> Eggert, Lars <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Mar 4, 2013, at 13:18, Eric Burger <eburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I will say it again - the IETF is organized by us. Therefore, this
> >>>> situation is created by us. We have the power to fix it. We have to
> >>>> want to fix it. Saying there is nothing we can do because this is
> >>>> the way it is is the same as saying we do not WANT to fix it.
> >>>
> >>> what is "the fix"?
> >>
> >>     There is an obvious place to look for ideas: the directorates.
> See:
> >>
> >> http://www.ietf.org/iesg/directorate.html
> >
> > That would help if the AD job would not be a full time job. Sure.
> > And I see some suggestions in this email thread to rely more on the
> > directorates. That makes sense (but reviews vary greatly, however) One
> > track not mentioned in this thread is the document shepherd.
> > The document shepherd job, when done according to RFC 4858 (see
> > specifically section 3.2 and 3.3) would save a huge amount of time to
> the AD.
> > Recently, for a single draft, I spent hoouuurrrssss trying to track
> > all the open issues from the directorates and the IESG, and chasing
> > the authors. On top of taking some time, I had to be become expert for
> > every single aspect of the specification to evaluate whether the
> > answer was right... while the document shepherd has already the
> expertise.
> > We should probably stress (again) the importance of document shepherd
> > function...
> >
> > Regards, Benoit
> >
> >



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