Re: Plenary Format - discussion notes

[Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>]

Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> writes:

> At 15 Aug 2003 09:03:03 -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > 
> > I wouldn't say assertion so much as acknowledgement. The IESG
> > (and to a lesser extent the IAB) has a quite significant amount
> > of authority over the IETF. I think it's therefore incumbent
> > on us to sit up there and behave like it.
> > 
> > Think of it as representative democracy if you like.
> 
> and in the culture that formed most of my opinions about the way
> people interact politically, sitting up on a stage as a visible symbol
> of leadership would have been considered arrogant in the extreme.
> different people are comfortable with different symbols, and one
> should chose one's symbols carefully, for one may be forced to live
> with them.
Obviously, that's true, but I think that in this particular
culture, we suffer more from a refusal to admit that we have
a leadership structure than from excessive leadership.

-Ekr