Re: [apps-review] Suggested changes for Applications Area Review Team

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

John C Klensin wrote:

>--On Sunday, March 20, 2011 13:08 -0700 SM
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>>One suggested change that has not be discussed is the Team
>>Lead.  The Team Lead should have a good relationship with the
>>Apps Area ADs as he or she works under their direction.
>>Keeping a Team Lead for too long does not ensure continuity.
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SM, I would like to know why you think that.
I don't think there is a need for changing the Team Lead every year.

>>I would like the team to discuss with the Apps Area ADs when
>>they meet in person about:
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>>  (i)   Should the Team Lead be selected for a year only
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No, unless this is what the Team Lead candidate wants.

>>  (ii)  Should the Team Lead have IESG experience to provide
>>better guidance to reviewers
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I don't think so.

>One comment on that question: one of the things the IETF does
>much less well than it should is to arrange things that
>familiarize new people with how the system works and generally
>to do leadership development.  While one might gain something in
>efficiency by having a team lead who was a former AD, it would
>be _far_ better, IMO, to use the position as an opportunity for
>increased understanding of the community, actors, and dynamics
>(as I am sure it has been for you).   As long as things are
>fairly open, there will always be present and ex-ADs ready to
>step in and provide that sort of guidance, perhaps even when the
>team lead doesn't want it :-).  But let's not throw away the
>opportunity to read more people in on the system in order to
>gain small marginal efficiencies by reusing the same folks over
>and over again.
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+100.

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