Re: administrivia: new/missing/former ADs

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

On 2/18/11 12:24 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Friday, February 18, 2011 10:00 -0700 Peter Saint-Andre
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> In addition, the current list of subscribers appears to
>> include a number of people who are no longer actively serving
>> in IETF roles that would necessitate their involvement (Ted
>> Hardie, Harald Alvestrand, Patrik Fältström). I don't know
>> if we have a policy about who is and is not allowed onto this
>> list, but perhaps it's fine for them to still be subscribed if
>> they don't mind the occasional email traffic.
> 
> The historical policy has been that people who have been on the
> list because of earlier roles but who
> 
> 	-- are willing to continue  and
> 	
> 	-- may contribute useful contemporary or historical
> 	perspective
> 
> are left on it.   One way of looking at the reason involves
> noticing that we really don't have a vast surplus of talent and
> perspective in the areas that overlap between the IETF and W3C.
> 
> Of course, that policy can be changed if it makes sense to those
> most actively involved.  But, since you implicitly asked the
> question about what the policy is/was, that is the answer.

Thanks. I was going to explicitly ask about the policy, but I wasn't
sure if there even was a policy (or if there needed to be).

Peter

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