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Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

Scott Brim <swb@internet2.edu> Mon, 04 March 2013 18:19 UTC

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From: Scott Brim <swb@internet2.edu>
To: Mary Barnes <mary.ietf.barnes@gmail.com>, Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
Subject: Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director
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On 03/04/13 12:51, "Mary Barnes" <mary.ietf.barnes@gmail.com> allegedly
wrote:
>[MB] I don't think anyone has said an AD could be a manager with
>little technical clue.  I think Sam said it extremely well in his
>email.  What some of us have been proposing is that someone with
>proven technical skills in another area that also is good at managing
>projects/people could do a reasonable job.

Yes because they have demonstrated technical clue and therefore have
already demonstrated that they can pick up the essence of the issues in an
area, enough to ask the right questions and have insight into priorities -
otherwise they couldn't have got where they are.  We've done this before.

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