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

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

--On 30. oktober 2003 22:06 -0500 Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Harald,
>
> This is a good thread to explore. Thanks for bringing it up. I also
> assume you've thought about this for a while and that you are looking
> for both of the following:
>
> - offloading the GEN area to someone else
> - some help in what are essentially chair duties, not AD duties
>
> If the first were to happen, would the second still be required. I'm
> reading your answer as yes, based on this thread, but it would be good
> to be clear on this.

Yes.

Hesitant to call it "required" - I'm not as certain as that - but it's the 
state-sharing issue that concerns me the most.
We've got much experience with dealing with handovers of areas - WG chairs 
keep a good deal of state, and there's a fairly bonded set of things going 
on - but the other stuff is what worries me.

My three working groups do need followup, and it would be good to have 
someone else with a responsibility for them, but they are not the major 
part of the load. At least not now!

(note - at Wye River time, I did investigate briefly having another AD who 
was already on the IESG "seconded" to GEN - for various reasons, it did not 
happen. But it wouldn't have been an unreasonable thing to do.)