Re: facilitators at [e-mail]

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 3:40 PM +0300 9/23/14, IETF Chair wrote:

>  Occasionally, discussions on the list get heated, repetitive, or 
> unnecessarily personal. When that happens, I have found that quick 
> responses on the list or to the persons often resolves the 
> situation, and productive discussion can continue. However, I am 
> also finding that it is difficult for me personally to stay on top 
> the threads in real time, and late reactions are not as useful. As 
> a result, I plan to ask two persons to help monitor the discussion 
> and steer it towards the most useful avenues.

This seems reasonable.  My only questions are why a formal role is 
needed and why only two people?  I would have thought any of the 
calmer heads could send private notes to people who get caught up in 
emotions during a mailing list discussion.  Perhaps it works better 
to have this done by a very small set of officially-designated people.


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Randall Gellens
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