Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

"Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com> Mon, 04 March 2013 08:10 UTC

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From: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com>
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
Subject: Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director
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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:07:17 +0000
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Hi,

On Mar 3, 2013, at 21:14, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> To be considered qualified the candidate needed to:
>  a) have demonstrated subject matter expertise (congestion in this case)
>  b) have demonstrated IETF management expertise (current/former WG chair)
>  c) have time available
> 
> Generally speaking, people who can not satisfy (c) do not show up on the
> list of nominees, as they have to decline the nomination.   
> There definitely are many people who have (a) and (b), but not (c). 
> 
> Were money not an issue, filing this position would be easy.  

it's not money issue. There are basically two pools of qualified people for a TSV AD position that requires a CC background: academia and industry.

Academia typically means folks on tenure track. Putting that on hold for 2-4 years - even if someone (e.g., ISOC) would pay for the involvement - is not going to happen. You'd be severely risking getting tenure. Even for someone that already is tenured, the time commitment is too high.

There are qualified people in the industry, and that's where most of the past ADs have come from. In the last few years, it's been increasingly harder to get them to step forward, because their employers are reluctant to let them spend the time. I actually think that this is because employers realize that these skills are important and rare to find, and so you want these guys to work on internal things and not donate them to the IETF.

Lars