On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 06:45:07PM -0500, Mary B wrote: > So, this whole discussion started based on Kathleen sharing her experiences > as SEC AD. I've always thought that ADs could rely more on their > directorates, but I do think SEC (and maybe OPS) is unique in that security > applies to all our documents, as opposed to ART area, for example. We have > 3 ADs for ART and RTG. So, maybe for SEC specifically a 3rd AD could help > spread the day to day workload for the WGs for which they're responsible. > I apologize if that has been mentioned - I gave up on reading all the > emails in this conversation - if it has, then +1. It's unclear how useful that would be -- roughly speaking, my AD time is split into four buckets: document review for telechats, following up with authors about my outstanding DISCUSS positions, AD review of documents from WGs (and keeping up with the WG traffic prior to publication requests), and generic IESG tasks. The fourth category is quite fungible, locally speaking, and does not need to claim much of my time unless there a topic comes up where I am a domain expert (but I do try to support my colleagues when time permits), so if I have time pressur during a given week, that number can fall to almost zero. With the biweekly telechat schedule, I tend to spend a lot of time on document review durinig telechat weeks, which pushes the other two categories mostly to the off-telechat weeks. I trust that my WG chairs will let me know if I have been remiss in my duties following WG traffic and advancing documents past publication request, but so far, it does not feel like WG management is consuming an unduly large portion of my time. Document review for telechats is the biggest factor, perhaps 25-30 hours on a telechat week, depending, so I usually don't specifically plan for other tasks during those weeks. (I do have some slop time for timely things that come up, of course.) Other current and former ADs have discussed strategies for splitting telechat workload across ADs in the area (not 50/50, but perhaps 65/65, IIRC). Ekr and I have mostly not needed to make such a split yet, and we do tend to find different things in our ballot positions, so there does seem to be a plausible risk that splitting telechat review workload could reduce document quality. I don't have enough data to make any real rigorous conclusions, but hopefully this can help give a picture of how the SEC area is currently functioning. -Ben
