Ted says, with respect to "Quickly replace failing WG Chairs": > You forgot "from a magical pool of better qualified WG chairs who > have the time and inclination to take on the work." Let me tell you about a conversation I had when I was trying to fill a chair position: I asked someone I thought could and would do a good job as chair. She was also a proponent of the technology, and wanted to be a document author. In response to, "Why not be a chair, and lead the effort?", part of her answer was something like this: "I work for a small company. Whatever work I do on this takes away from what I do for them, and they want to see something tangible from it. If I'm (co-)author on a document, my name, and my company's is at the top of the document. I get credit for the work. My company gets credit for the work. "If I'm a working group chair, I do more work, overall. And, in the end, I get no credit for it -- my name is not on any of the documents. And, significantly, my company gets no credit for it whatsoever, not even listed in the datatracker. "When I go to my boss and give him the alternatives, I know which he'll pick." Barry