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Re: leader statements

Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> Thu, 10 October 2013 19:00 UTC

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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:58:58 -0800
From: Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com>
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On 10/10/13 10:52 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> I'm not sure this is true. The IETF worked quite well (and produced a lot of
> good stuff) back in, e.g. the Phill Gross era, when I am pretty sure Phill's
> model of his job was indeed as a 'facilitator', not a 'leader' in the sense
> you seem to be thinking of. So why do we now need a 'leader'?

Because we've got more than 120 working groups, thousands of
participants, and the internet is now part of the world's
communications infrastructure.  I don't like hierarchy but
I don't know how to scale up the organization without it.

Melinda

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