On Fri, Jul 26, 2019, at 07:21, Pete Resnick wrote: > It seems to me there's a pretty wide chasm between "completely opaque" > and "micromanaging", so I'm curious about your thought that the complete > opacity "is a very good thing". In particular, if the IAB is accountable > (and I believe it is and should be), it's got to have at least some > knowledge of what's going on at a high level. That to me means that the > IAB not only reviews the minutes of RSOC meetings like the rest of us > do, but also gets regular briefings from the RSOC so there can be some > Q&A about minutes. The idea, at least as far I understand it, was that the two IAB members on the RSOC were entrusted with ensuring that information was relayed to the IAB as a whole. So, while the analogy is neat, it's not really a black box. Information was flowing, but it might have been that there was some problem with getting the right level of information.
