On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Jim Fenton wrote:
Do you really need Jim as co-chair ? He's more important
as co-author, and mixing these jobs coulde a bad idea when
it hits the fan again as with the former MARID WG.
Thanks for your vote of confidence as an author. As Mike pointed out,
this is just who chairs the BoF, and it's up to the ADs who the WG
chairs might be. I agree, it would be a very bad idea to mix the WG
chair and editor jobs.
The thing is that conflict of interest matters even for BoFs. While in
previous BoF at least one co-chair was neutral party and not involved
in any MASS-related work, this is no longer the same now and both
co-chairs represent particular MASS spec. And the result is that BoF
agenda has removed any mention of alternative specs in the same area.
As I noted, I believe this to be inappropriate as far as this MASS BoF
being considered continuation of previous one. Most likely next week,
I'll contact security are directors or iesg directly and request that
this situation be re-examined.
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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