Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

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On Mon, April 29, 2013 2:28 pm, Dave Crocker wrote:
> On 4/29/2013 2:20 PM, Michael StJohns wrote:
>> At 04:40 PM 4/29/2013, Dave Crocker wrote:
>>>> Actually, I don't think this is even a mostly correct statement -
>>>> that AD select chairs.
>>>
>>> It is a long-standing, simple, objective, unvarying management fact of
>>> IETF procedure:  ADs hire and fire wg chairs.
>>
>> The AD's do have the final say.  No question.  But  "select" implies
>> that the own the entire process of creating and staffing a WG. Nope.
>
> They do "own" it; that's a formal truth.
>
> That they often delegate details and concur with self-organizing choices
> means nothing, in terms of their authority.

  But it might mean something in terms of the discussion at hand. If the
ADs are concurring with self-organizing choices as opposed to selecting
WG chairs, then they aren't really imposing a "looks like me" bias into
the selection process.

  Dan.






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