Re: [Rfced-future] Model proposal

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:45:34AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Absolutely I think that community discussion and rough consensus is
> appropriate for this and other strategy or policy issues. My concern
> is that this needs to be facilitated and informed by someone with
> relevant knowledge and experience in the editing/publishing/library/
> archival world and that is not us. It's certainly not a skill set that
> the NomCom typically looks for when picking IESG or IAB nominees. It's
> a skill set that we did look for when appointing the previous RSE.

The IESG and IAB need, above all, decision-making skills and mastery and
respect of process.  They have at their disposal, too, a great deal of
collective expertise from the community, shepherds, directorates, and
RSE, so they don't necessarily need to be experts in any one area in
order to make decisions in that area.  Moreover, IAB and IESG members
tend to have been through the RFC publication gauntlet, so they almost
necessarily have at least a modicum of publication expertise of their
own.

If there's no question that some issues must consume some of their
attention, then I'm not sure that the IAB performing RSE oversight is a
problem.