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Re: Internet Draft Submission cutoff dates

2008-02-01 14:39:34

On Feb 1, 2008, at 12:51 PM, John C Klensin wrote:

(3) Cullen's note emphasized the reading problems faced by ADs
who are trying to stay on top of all of the documents in their
areas.  I think we need to be very careful about that, balancing
permitting the ADs to function/manage effectively and
efficiently with efficient functioning of WGs.   Years ago, when
I was trying to do an AD job, I discovered that it was more
important to follow discussions than to read every revision of
every document, leaving it to the WGs and their leadership to be
sure that discussions were properly reflected in revisions and
to bring the issues to my attention when needed.   But Cullen
may well work differently than I did (and his results may be
better), so it is important to be sure that we don't upset his
balance and that of others working the way he works.

Yep, it is clear to me that many ADs go about managing in different  
ways and that this diversity in this is a good thing - what works for  
one AD is not the best for others. Also, I agree we do need to  
optimize for the WGs getting the work done not optimize for an ADs  
ability to read it all. I was trying to make the argument that I  
suspect that some reasonable fraction of the key contributors in RAI  
are probably participating in  2/3 of the WGs that I am reading thus  
would have reading loads that were pretty heavy. I don't really know  
but I hope to ask some of them to keep track for this next meeting.

Cullen <with my individual contributor hat on>


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