A directorate for the General area

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

Hi,

I've decided to follow recent tradition and create a directorate for the 
General area, to advise and support the General AD and the WG chairs.

This is the blurb from http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/directorate.html:

The  General  Directorate  is  created to advise the General AD in the
task  of  managing the working groups dealing with rulemaking, process
design  and  IETF  organizational  maintenance  - "getting the IETF to
work".

The  intent  is  to  help make sure the various efforts are pulling in
compatible  directions,  and  that  what  needs to be done is actually
getting done by someone.

The formal responsibility of a directorate is to advise the AD(s), not
to make decisions. Directorate members have no special authority.

The directorate currently consists of:

    Harald Alvestrand - <Harald@alvestrand.no>
    Bernard Aboba - <aboba@internaut.com>
    Brian Carpenter - <brian@hursley.ibm.com>
    Leslie Daigle - <Leslie@thinkingcat.com>
    Spencer Dawkins - <spencer@mcsr-labs.org>
    John Klensin - <klensin@jck.com>
    John Loughney - <john.loughney@nokia.com>
    Margaret Wasserman - <mrw@windriver.com>

The directorate   can   be   contacted   by   sending   e-mail   to
<gen-dir@alvestrand.no>.

I hope this is going to be an useful function for all of us!

                Harald