On Mon, April 29, 2013 2:28 pm, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 4/29/2013 2:20 PM, Michael StJohns wrote:
At 04:40 PM 4/29/2013, Dave Crocker wrote:
Actually, I don't think this is even a mostly correct statement -
that AD select chairs.
It is a long-standing, simple, objective, unvarying management fact of
IETF procedure: ADs hire and fire wg chairs.
The AD's do have the final say. No question. But "select" implies
that the own the entire process of creating and staffing a WG. Nope.
They do "own" it; that's a formal truth.
That they often delegate details and concur with self-organizing choices
means nothing, in terms of their authority.
But it might mean something in terms of the discussion at hand. If the
ADs are concurring with self-organizing choices as opposed to selecting
WG chairs, then they aren't really imposing a "looks like me" bias into
the selection process.
Dan.