Re: Last Call: <draft-secretaries-good-practices-06.txt> (IETF Working Groups' Secretaries) to Best Current Practice

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 08 December 2014 21:52 UTC

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On 09/12/2014 09:44, Martin Vigoureux wrote:
> Section 6:
>    Nevertheless, while the WG Chairs may delegate a number of tasks to
>    the Secretary, they maintain the overall responsibility and
>    accountability over the WG and the decisions and actions that are
>    taken.

Which is good stuff, like most of the content. I think the
argument is not about the quality of the draft, but about
whether it needs to be a BCP.

   Brian

> 
> Le 08/12/2014 21:37, Murray S. Kucherawy a écrit :
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com
>> <mailto:melinda.shore@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 12/8/14 10:54 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>     > More generally, it needs to be clear that chairs MAY delegate
>>     > their routine tasks as they see fit, including these tasks,
>>     > but that doing so does not absolve them from any of their
>>     > responsibilities.
>>
>>     That strikes me as the correct formulation.
>>
>>
>> Ditto.
>>
>> -MSK
> 
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