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

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

> > The document makes reference to several tools or components of tools
> > (the datatracker in particular) that I've never seen.  That's not to say
> > they don't exist, but I haven't seen them and couldn't find them just
> > now, so it makes me wonder if the tools team would have to do a bunch of
> > work to get reality to match what's written here.  For example, I just
> > went into the datatracker and as a working group co-chair I have
> > privileges in that system with respect to my working groups.  However, I
> > didn't see anywhere in there that I can declare a WG Secretary or
> > delegate some or all of my powers to that person, despite the fact that
> > Section 4 says such things "shall" be done.  Is this something that a
> > co-chair would have to request of the Secretariat directly or via a
> > sponsoring Area Director?  If not, does the tools team intend to add that?
> 
> Well - the tool team has to answer about their plans, but does hardly
> effect progressing this document.
> 
> Things like "delegation" are captured in the datatracker, and that is
> what the document says: a lot of things are, some of them can only be
> done by intervention of an AD or the Secreatariat or a combination
> thereof. This document is not the place to describe the dynamics.

As AD I can see the place to make these changes in the data tracker. It's possible that the permissions are not set to allow chairs to make these changes.

datatracker
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"Edit group"  <<< possibly this you don't have access to as a chair?
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Adrian