On 06/11/2015 03:02, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote: > So, I'm not an ART AD ... and I'm not an AD of any kind... > There was enough tension between the idea of a significantly smaller IESG > and the idea of significant time commitment reduction for all AD positions > that we couldn't make progress in either direction There's a third apex to that triangle: the tension between trusting WG chairs to take full responsibility and the IESG having final responsibility for document quality. I don't think we can make a major change to the IESG workload without tackling that issue too. It's hard to say exactly what fraction of the IESG's time is spent finding and fixing DISCUSS-worthy problems in drafts, but reducing that fraction to zero would certainly have an impact. Brian