On Saturday, February 15, 2014, IETF Chair wrote:
For your information, the IETF and IAB chairs participated in a meeting
where we met with leaders of a number of other Internet organisations.
The meeting results was not clearly specified in the statement, that makes
it lacks some important information. Internet Leaders should provide
followers with current coordination decisions or solutions.
A brief statement was issued:
Leaders of the organizations responsible for coordination of the
Internet technical infrastructure (loosely referred to as "I* leaders") met
last week in Santa Monica, California, USA.
I think the organisations are taking the responsibility of coordination
(not they are totally responsible or they are the only organisations
responsible). So I think it is better to say: ... organisations that are
currently taking responsibility for coordination.....
On Saturday, February 15, 2014, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Thanks for the update.
I'd really like to push the idea that we stop using the word "leaders"
and start using "spokespeople".
I don't mind both titles. The idea of leadership is not only for
organisation heads or directors but may be for others in any organisation.
I disagree that IETF has only assigned leaders but there are others which
are the real leaders of technologies. In IETF I have some of my leaders are
not chairs or directors or authors but just participants.
Leaders need followers or electors, otherwise they are not leaders even if
there was a title, real leaders in organisations have no title but they
have followers, because they had the engineering sense of reasoning and
quality.
Thanking you,
AB