On 10/10/13 10:52 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > I'm not sure this is true. The IETF worked quite well (and produced a lot of > good stuff) back in, e.g. the Phill Gross era, when I am pretty sure Phill's > model of his job was indeed as a 'facilitator', not a 'leader' in the sense > you seem to be thinking of. So why do we now need a 'leader'? Because we've got more than 120 working groups, thousands of participants, and the internet is now part of the world's communications infrastructure. I don't like hierarchy but I don't know how to scale up the organization without it. Melinda