> While I am not sure if it’s directly about the IESG's power of > decision, it is another view on what would be necessary to the reduce > the work load on Area Directors. A lot of the work load of the ADs is > reviewing documents. I think an important element of reducing their > work load is having working groups to advance higher quality documents > to the IESG. it is not clear to me that reducing the workload is a primary goal. document quality is. some basic management skills, delegation and load sharing, seem to reduce workload without negatively affecting document quality. all serious workers (in the ietf) are overloaded; that's life. ADs are serious workers, we hope. what i hear them whining about is incoming document quality from the wgs. if we are going to micro-manage the iesg as an olympic sport, perhaps we should focus on that. randy