[mpowr] RE: [Solutions] Troops versus superpower

I have to agree with Alex's differentiation of two approaches,
but I would like to attach a third alternative that has proven
successful in the past.

> I can understand an organization where the working group is a
> superpower, with rules and procedures for cross-group review and
> conflict resolution. I can understand an organization where the IESG
> is the superpower, with rules and procedures to encourage WG work and
> elect IESG. If current IETF is the second kind of an organization (and
> it looks like that to me), are we not fooling ourselves with "troops"
> arguments? It seems to me that we should either
> 
> 	- relax and let IESG disperse its powers to Chairs
> 	  any way it seems fit; it should be within IESG
> 	  powers to do so if IESG already has powers of so
> 	  many more important aspects of WG work
> 
> 	- remove superpowers from IESG and have a WG decide
> 	  on its Chair authority; leave IESG its current
> 	  final conflict resolution power.
> 
> Both options have real-life precedence in other SDOs, of course. We
> seem to be stuck trying to invent a third option that carefully draws
> a line between effectively powerless WG and an effective IESG
> superpower, with a Chair standing on that line. Such an option may not
> exist.

This third approach is also used by many SDOs.  By maintaining
absolute process supervision powers at a level equivalent to
that of IESG, one could successfully disperse the technical 
review powers to a lower level (WG and below) during the 
development process and to a wide public during the superpower's process
review period.  The superpowers
verify the process while the process, managed by working
group chairs, demands and defines the
required liaison and review activities.  Chairs that don't require
the process of their working group are guided toward correct behavior
or removed by the superpower.

Bob Snively
408-333-8135

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