--On Monday, December 08, 2014 14:41 +0100 Benoit Claise
<bclaise@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>...
> If not, what's left for the chairs? Just a title?
> Exactly like having 3 WG chairs leads to dilution of
> responsibility, I fear that that same dilution of
> responsibility will apply here. At least with the way it's
> specified in this document, i.e, like a formal role.
yep.
> Maybe it boils down to the fact that I have not seen a
> successful secretary in action.
I have and I've seen them be good for leadership development
too. But the successful ones actually should be pretty
invisible from outside the WG -- helping with the Chair workload
but with no independently-specified responsibility or authority.
I like the idea of allowing secretaries. I just don't think
that formalizing the role or creating IETF-wide role
descriptions is likely to be helpful. Indeed, I think it could
cause significant harm.
john