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Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-09-28 15:39:03
On 2011-09-29 04:24, Russ Housley wrote:
Brian:

And to be clear, I (still the previous IETF Chair) think that
some such change is needed, which is exactly why I wrote the
above draft in 2006. Perhaps the difference is that I see
the IAOC/Trust role as very hard to separate from the IETF Chair
role - but more easily separable from the IESG Chair role.

This is not my experience.  There have been some decisions related to 
meetings where the IAOC and the IESG need to be in alignment.  The last two 
IAB Chairs have not been active ex-officio members of the IESG, and they have 
let the liaisons between the IAB and the IESG cover these responsibilities.  
As a result, I have been the only IAOC member with insight into the IESG.  
This has been importing in these matters.

Yes, there's no doubt that the IESG needs to have strong input
into IASA decisions; there is no way round that. But it isn't
clear to me that this must be the IESG Chair's job, if we had
a model where the IETF Chair and IESG Chair were two different
people. As long as it's one person, this is a zero-sum game.

  Brian
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