Ted says, with respect to "Quickly replace failing WG Chairs":
You forgot "from a magical pool of better qualified WG chairs who
have the time and inclination to take on the work."
Let me tell you about a conversation I had when I was trying to fill a
chair position: I asked someone I thought could and would do a good
job as chair. She was also a proponent of the technology, and wanted
to be a document author. In response to, "Why not be a chair, and
lead the effort?", part of her answer was something like this:
"I work for a small company. Whatever work I do on this takes away
from what I do for them, and they want to see something tangible from
it. If I'm (co-)author on a document, my name, and my company's is at
the top of the document. I get credit for the work. My company gets
credit for the work.
"If I'm a working group chair, I do more work, overall. And, in the
end, I get no credit for it -- my name is not on any of the documents.
And, significantly, my company gets no credit for it whatsoever, not
even listed in the datatracker.
"When I go to my boss and give him the alternatives, I know which he'll pick."
Barry