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Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

Allison Mankin <allison.mankin@gmail.com> Mon, 04 March 2013 16:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director
From: Allison Mankin <allison.mankin@gmail.com>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu>
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On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu> wrote:

> I'd like to  live in an IETF where we have room for people who do want
> to spend a lot of time on all those issues as well as a place where ADs
> can take responsibility for the technical work in their area  and
> minimize time commitments.
>
> I think the balance between personal review and trusting others is
> something that will shift both for individual ADs and over time.  I'd
> hate to see the community over-constrain that.

I strongly agree with Sam's point here.  When we have these
discussions, we often try to over-engineer the people aspects.
Especially given our nomcom process (versus the hiring process that
proceeds from inside a management or a standing board),
over-constraining is pretty doomed.

Allison

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