Re: Cost vs. Benefit of Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture Area

David,

as you know, I have been very worried about the size of the IESG too. And 
I've even used that argument in the discussion of some other suggestions 
that would add people to the IESG - I did not see that the benefits of 
those other proposals were higher than the costs.

But - I think this proposal is addressing a well known problem; the 
division of groups between APPS and Transport hasn't made sense for at 
least the last 10 years, and the realignment suggested makes the divisions 
a little more reasonable. When people's thoughts align to the point where 
doing a sensible thing to this problem is possible, it is my opinion that 
it is time to do it.

Once Brian's PESCI group gets off the ground, and if they ask for my input, 
I'll certainly recommend that they recommend to the community that they do 
drastic surgery to the effective group size of the IESG - the -twolevel- 
draft was one suggestion for how that could be done.

But adding another area can be done NOW, and (in my opinion) won't delay 
the solution to the "size" problem - which (in my opinion) has to be solved 
anyway.

In my opinion, the benefits outweigh the costs.

                        Harald