At 05:47 PM 12/18/2014, Spencer Dawkins at IETF wrote:
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While it's true that recent IESGs have had two Area Directors in each Area
except for the General Area, the number of Area Directors in each Area has
varied since
<https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1396.txt>https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1396.txt
(for reference, see
<http://www.ietf.org/iesg/past-members.html>http://www.ietf.org/iesg/past-members.html).Â
This variation was due to a number of factors, including workload and personal
preferences, and happened as a natural part of the IESG organizing itself to
do the work the IESG is chartered to do.Â
At one point, the IESG placed three Area Directors in a single Area (Scott
Bradner, Deirdre Kostick, and Michael O'Dell, in the Operational & Management
Requirements Area, between IETF 36 and IETF 37 in 1996).
I don't think I have any real problems with the original language.
The particular case that Scott cites though was due to the combining of two
different areas - Operations (which had 2 ADs) and Network Management (which
had 1). That happened midway through the cycle and not (AIRC) as part of the
Nomcom placing three people as ADs for Ops and Management.
So it was transitional, and reflected in the next Nomcom results which brought
the O&M AD count down to two. Operationally, I don't think it affected which
groups the ADs had had before the merge.
Mike