At 00:36 29/04/2005, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
The way to reduce work is by subsidiarity - devolve decision making to
the lowest possible level.
Unfortunately this is not possible. Subsidiairity means the active (if
necessary) respect of the duties of others to their own constituents. In
this case a WG Chair's constituents are not the members of his group (as
you seem to imply). The constituents of all the members of every WG are the
users and the system these users trust. This is because this is the Charter
of the IETF.
Subsidiarity to apply in this case would call for all the IETF Members to
share the same vision of the Internet - this could result from a common
model of the network - what is not the case (or there would be no problem).
The network model is replaced by the non documented vision of the AD and
IESG Members.
This explains why IETF is better suited to maintain systems (as everyone
can observe them and get a similar understanding) rather then innovating or
creating. Innovation is delegated to IAB or considered as a long range
issue for the IRTF.
jfc
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