Re: [trill] Last Call: <draft-dawkins-iesg-one-or-more-04.txt> (Increasing the Number of Area Directors in an IETF Area) to Best Current Practice

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Fri, 19 December 2014 01:57 UTC

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Donald
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF
> <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
>> There's really nothing as awesome as sending Last Call comments on your own
>> draft. You should try it some time ... or not.
>>
>> But please see below.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I had a chat with Scott Bradner today, and Scott asked me to explain some
>> history in a different way. The text he questioned was this:
>>
>> OLD
>>
>>    In the distant past, all IETF Areas had a single Area Director.  The
>>    movement from single Area Directors in an Area to pairs of Area
>>    Directors in most Areas happened over a period of years (for
>>    reference, see http://www.ietf.org/iesg/past-members.html), as part
>>    of the IESG organizing itself to do the work the IESG is chartered to
>>    do.
>>
>> END
>>
>> Scott said that changes in the number of Area Directors assigned to a given
>> Area during "the modern era", post Kobe, wasn't quite the linear progression
>> I described, and suggested (my words, trying to capture his thoughts),
>> something more like this:
>>
>> NEW
>>
>> While it's true that recent IESGs have had two Area Directors in each Area
>> except for the General Area, the number of Area Directors in each Area has
>> varied since https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1396.txt (for reference, see
>> http://www.ietf.org/iesg/past-members.html).
>>
>> This variation was due to a number of factors, including workload and
>> personal preferences, and happened as a natural part of the IESG organizing
>> itself to do the work the IESG is chartered to do.
>>
>> At one point, the IESG placed three Area Directors in a single Area (Scott
>> Bradner, Deirdre Kostick, and Michael O'Dell, in the Operational &
>> Management Requirements Area, between IETF 36 and IETF 37 in 1996).
>
> I think it is a good change to the text. It grounds the change to the
> limit on the number of ADs in real events.
>
> Thanks,
> Donald
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>
>> END
>>
>> I wouldn't mind hearing people's opinions about making this change as part
>> of Last Call, and I don't think the rest of the IESG would mind, either ...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Spencer
>>
>>> Abstract
>>>
>>>
>>>    This document removes a limit on the number of Area Directors who
>>>    manage an Area in the definition of "IETF Area".  This document
>>>    updates RFC 2026 (BCP 9) and RFC 2418 (BCP 25).
>>>
>>>...

Re: [trill] Last Call: <draft-dawkins-iesg-one-or… Donald Eastlake
Re: [trill] Last Call: <draft-dawkins-iesg-one-or… Donald Eastlake