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

["Fred Baker (fred)" <[e-mail]>]

On Dec 3, 2014, at 11:54 AM, John C Klensin <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Secretaries are fine but, if 2418 is changed, the change
> shouldn't be to institutionalize Secretaries either.  It should:
> 
> (1) Make clear that the statements in 2418 about Secretaries are
> to be taken as examples, not limits.
> 
> (2) Make clear that WG Chairs can, subject to review with/by the
> relevant AD, delegate anything they like to anyone they like and
> that such delegations should allow whatever access to tools,
> etc., is needed to do the job... as long as such delegations do
> no change the responsibility and accountability of the with WG
> Chair.  If a WG Chair (after whatever consultation with the
> relevant AD they consider appropriate) wants to delegate some
> tasks to someone who is not an officially-designated WG
> Secretary, we shouldn't have documents that accidentally get in
> the way.
> 
> For the record, I'm not convinced that a change to 2418 is
> needed for the above: the IESG has claimed, and gotten away
> with, far more significant changes to procedures my means of
> "statements" and the 2418 text does not appear to me to contain
> any words that restrict access to tools that did not exist when
> it was written.

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