Re: problem with recent drafts on tools.ietf.org? {35440727}

[Glen <[e-mail]>]

On 3/4/2021 12:04, Alexa Morris wrote:
>> On Mar 4, 2021, at 11:15 AM, Fred Baker <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> I think there was an announcement that Henrik was leaving, and I certainly knew that there was a conflict between him and DMS/Glen's work.
> AMS’s IT team (Glen and Ryan) worked closely with Henrik for many years and were deeply saddened by his departure. They were not just professional colleagues and collaborators; they were friends. I just wanted to clarify that, since it appears that you had a different understanding.

Since I was mentioned by name twice, I will take the opportunity to 
clarify one more thing, if I may:

Under the paradigm designed by Russ Housley when he was Chair, the Tools 
Team (which included Henrik at the time, and is now led by Robert), does 
"Engineering" - software design, coding, code debugging, and overall 
oversight of Tools generally.  In contrast, I and my team at AMS do 
"Operations" - we run the IETF production servers, a number of backup 
servers, and do our best to keep things alive and running well 
generally.  That is a clearly defined and bright line which has worked 
well for us all these years.

So a conflict wasn't really a realistic thing, because our roles were 
clearly defined.  And unless there was conversation I was not aware of 
(possible, but I never got a hint of it), "conflict" was always the 
farthest thing from my relationship with Henrik.  He and I worked 
closely on production-related things, our working relationship was 
always excellent and enjoyable, and I was completely blindsided by his 
departure.  Any concepts to the contrary are, at least from my point of 
view, completely inaccurate.

All that said, I never worked on the "tools.ietf.org" servers, I never 
had regular access to them and, apart from doing the occasional hard 
reset, I never was involved with them in any way.  I think he had others 
in that role, but I was not ever a part of the "tools" inner circle. 
That was fine with me, since as he would say, "There is always more to 
do" and I am busy with my own work, which consists primarily of being 
the IETF's operator, and doing everything I can to support everyone 
behind the scenes.

And for what it's worth, speaking personally for a moment, Henrik was 
one of the very few people who put up with what he called my "brashness" 
with both patience and tolerance.  He knew that my tone was always 
unintentional, and he was never offended by it; instead, he took the 
time to educate me about it and help me try to be less "curt."  I 
actually cried actual literal tears when I learned of his departure, and 
his absence still hurts my soul.

Glen
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Glen Barney
IT Director
AMS (IETF Secretariat)