> > The document makes reference to several tools or components of tools > > (the datatracker in particular) that I've never seen. That's not to say > > they don't exist, but I haven't seen them and couldn't find them just > > now, so it makes me wonder if the tools team would have to do a bunch of > > work to get reality to match what's written here. For example, I just > > went into the datatracker and as a working group co-chair I have > > privileges in that system with respect to my working groups. However, I > > didn't see anywhere in there that I can declare a WG Secretary or > > delegate some or all of my powers to that person, despite the fact that > > Section 4 says such things "shall" be done. Is this something that a > > co-chair would have to request of the Secretariat directly or via a > > sponsoring Area Director? If not, does the tools team intend to add that? > > Well - the tool team has to answer about their plans, but does hardly > effect progressing this document. > > Things like "delegation" are captured in the datatracker, and that is > what the document says: a lot of things are, some of them can only be > done by intervention of an AD or the Secreatariat or a combination > thereof. This document is not the place to describe the dynamics. As AD I can see the place to make these changes in the data tracker. It's possible that the permissions are not set to allow chairs to make these changes. datatracker sign in https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/foowg/charter/ "Edit group" <<< possibly this you don't have access to as a chair? fill in the fields Adrian