On Oct 18, 2013, at 00:15, <l(_dot_)wood(_at_)surrey(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk> wrote:
Chairs being authors, and thus taking a detailed technical position, can
often be very bad for workgroup output.
Chairs understanding the technology also can be very good for WG output.
If you understand the technology in a dynamic field, it is simply unnatural to
abstain from writing documents.
(I'm not saying there is no problem with mixing chair and author roles, just
that it is inappropriate to "solve" it with simplistic rules.)
Grüße, Carsten