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

["Adrian Farrel" <[e-mail]>]

Melinda, 

Thanks for clarifying.

> ... but what concerns me is that this document appears to
> normalize the secretarial role, rather than simply saying
> that chairs are able to delegate various tasks.  There
> appears to be a formal vesting of responsibility in working
> group secretaries.

I would love to work on the text that you feel normalising or formalising. My
reading doesn't convey that to me, and speaking with the authors it is not their
intention.

So it should be possible to reach agreement on text changes that would take this
tone out of your reading.

But, it is a little hard for those of us who don't see an issue with the text to
make suitable changes. Could you point us the sentences that are giving you a
problem and maybe suggest replacement words?

> I like Ralph's proposal to update 2418 to allow for
> wg secretary access to working group tools. 

That's good. I believe Ralph is looking for a co-author  :-)

> Otherwise
> my preference would be to continue to keep the focus on
> chair responsibilities, including chair delegation of
> various tasks.  Secretaries are fine but I really
> dislike seeing the role institutionalized.

And again, there is no intention to institutionalise so can you help us remove
that tone from the document?

Thanks,
Adrian