Re: Plenary Format - discussion notes

[Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>]

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> writes:

> --On 14. august 2003 18:50 -0700 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> 
> >> I had suggested that this too be handled in a joint manner. IAB
> >> comment has been that this is perhaps too many people on the stage if
> >> we continue to use the stage format. Other suggestions have included:
> >> 1/2 of the IESG and 1/2 of the IAB on the stage each time (or some
> >> other fraction), or to set a fixed max time for each group to be on
> >> the stage and swap who goes first each time. Or something else, if you
> >> can think of another way to do the open mic thing in a rational way.
> >
> > i have long wanted to get off the stage.  i do not like sitting
> > royally above people.  get the whole lot of us off the stage, and
> > let us queue up for mics just as everyone else does.
> 
> I have the opposite reaction - that having us be off stage looks like
> we're trying to hide our responsibility, leaving the person(s) leading
> the discussions up there alone.
> 
> And in the IESG plenary especially, I like to have the ability to have
> the relevant AD respond, rather than channeling everything through the
> majordomo.
I agree here. This is the chance that individuals in the community
have to challenge the IESG (and to a lesser extent the IAB).
That doesn't work properly without them being present.

-Ekr