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[mpowr] Re: [Solutions] Re: process-only participation in WG [Troops vs superpower]

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Thu, 18 December 2003 16:20 UTC

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From: Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com>
To: Alex Conta <aconta@txc.com>
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On Thursday, 18 Dec 2003, Alex Conta wrote:

> On the other hand, I think it is quite possible that a "process, and 
> people" capable person to find it very interesting to chair  a WG, in 
> which it has no technical interest.

Don't bet on it.  I'd say that was hugely improbable.

> 
> > That is a huge assumption in the real world.  Chairing is a lot of 
> > work. 
> > 
> 
> Indeed chairing is a lot of work, and a lot of responsibility. I mean 
> here process and people managament work. But chairs combine today this 
> work, with too many technical roles: technical leader, architect, 
> editor, reviewer, etc...  in the same WG. This is bad, because it is one 
> of the reasons some WGs are so purely managed - too many - and IETF has 
> timely delivery problems, and other problems as well.

I don't believe this is right - I don't think having technically capable
chairs have any negative impact on the timely delivery problem at all - 
probably the opposite.

	Henrik

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