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

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Monday, December 08, 2014 14:41 +0100 Benoit Claise
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>...
> If not, what's left for the chairs? Just a title?
> Exactly like having 3 WG chairs leads to dilution of
> responsibility, I fear that that same dilution of
> responsibility will apply here. At least with the way it's
> specified in this document, i.e, like a formal role.

yep.

> Maybe it boils down to the fact that I have not seen a
> successful secretary in action.

I have and I've seen them be good for leadership development
too.  But the successful ones actually should be pretty
invisible from outside the WG -- helping with the Chair workload
but with no independently-specified responsibility or authority.

I like the idea of allowing secretaries.  I just don't think
that formalizing the role or creating IETF-wide role
descriptions is likely to be helpful.  Indeed, I think it could
cause significant harm.

    john