On 10/10/2014 8:33 AM, Pete Resnick wrote: > By appointing someone to the slot now, we're making the re-org harder. Not really. By the IESG's own admission, the current proposal is only partial. It does not fully attend to the concerns the IESG has nor does it fully resolve any of the concerns. As such it appears to represent a tactical response, albeit with strategic implications. As proposed, it has a bit of ready-fire-aim quality to it. It would be far more productive for the IESG to take the requisite time to formulate a complete proposal, including careful justification for whatever constitutes the full set of changes in mind. That will permit integrated analysis and discussion, rather than the piecemeal kind currently happening. Making these sorts of deeper and more substantial organizational changes to the IESG is not made easier or hard by having one fewer or more ADs. On the other hand, decrementally dropping an AD position rather suddenly like this has the aura of making significant organizational change but without a real opportunity for considering implications. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net