Re: Thinking about adding another AD in the General(ish) area

[Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>]

Sounds like a good idea.

Russ

At 08:51 AM 10/30/2003 -0800, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> This is something I've been thinking of for a while, but if doing this 
> makes sense in the current cycle, we need to get this into Rich's hands 
> Real Soon Now...
>
> in the current situation, two things have become clear:
> - There are a number of activities going on that the IETF Chair feels 
> responsible for. Some of them, but far from all, involve the General area 
> and the procedure updates. Others include a lot of inter-function 
> relationship management, and keeping track of IETF-wide topics and issues 
> that cannot be solved within a single area.
> - There are a significant number of those things that has a significant 
> amount of context which is not shared with the rest of the IESG. The IAB 
> chair shares quite a lot of the context, but does not have the same areas 
> of responsibility.
> - The load imposed by process issues is very high at the moment, and is 
> likely to stay there for some time - but should eventually decrease to a 
> more reasonable level.
> - The way the IESG works is likely to have to change anyway, for other 
> reasons, so adding more people to the IESG might not be so much of a 
> long-term problem that I've thought it would be before.
>
> Considering all this, I suggest that we can ask the Nomcom for an AD to 
> fill the position of "Assistant IETF Chair and General AD". The function 
> of this person would be to be the other AD for the General area, just as 
> in other two-person areas, and to assist and consult with the Chair in 
> following up IETF-wide issues and cross-area issues. Decision power for 
> chair issues would not change, but the assistant chair would be expected 
> to keep abreast of what the current issues are.
>
> Given the current rate of change in this area, I suggest that we select 
> that person for a period of ONE year, not two.
>
> makes any sense?