Re: Interim meetings - changing the way we work

"Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com> Thu, 26 February 2015 20:48 UTC

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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:47:50 -0500
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To: Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Interim meetings - changing the way we work
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But I have seen nothing in our procedures, or even in emails from ADs to 
the wg-chairs list, or to the IETF list, indicating that our leadership 
expects chairs to live up to this standard.
Yes, careful analysis suggests that this is really implicit in our 
current rules.  But it is not happening.

Yours,
Joel

On 2/26/15 3:37 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sure. But that means that the WG chairs (or secretary) have a strong
>> obligation to send *detailed* explanations of issues raised and proposed
>> resolutions to the mailing list, promptly, i.e. the same day or the
>> next day, asking for discussion and opinions. I'd think (from experience)
>> that for each hour of teleconference, that would take a half hour of
>> drafting a careful email. If you don't do that, you are disenfranchising
>> the people who could not attend the teleconference, which is not OK.
>
> Exactly.
>
>