> The community believes that the IESG has management
responsibility for the timeliness ande appropriateness of the output
of the IETF.
Sam,
I think you have identified the crux of a very serious disconnect.
Wherever did you obtain the view that the community delegated this
responsibility (and authority) to the IESG?
Over the last 3-4 years, the community has provided extensive and sustained
expression of a desire to have the IESG assert LESS "responsibility" for the
work that is done and to have the IESG serve as a choke point less.
How is it that the IESG has completely missed this feedback?
Initiatives come from the community, and the real work of the IETF is done by
working groups.
The job of the IESG is to facilitate those initiatives and that work and to
assess community rough consensus about the work.
The IESG can mentor working groups, so that they are more timely and produce
better quality output. It also can impede timeliness and progress, such as by
asserting late-stage vetos by virtue of introducing new and whimiscal
requirements.
Certainly it is essential to resolve this extreme disparity about the IESG's
job.
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d/
ps. Please forgive the Subject line, but I think it important to make the
nature of the disconnect crystal clear.
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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