On 03/05/2014 08:20 AM, Jari Arkko wrote:
Regarding the 5-year review of the area structure - I believe the IESG makes
the decision of how it organises the areas, number of ADs, and so on -
obviously any bigger change would be extensively discussed with the community
as well. We did that when RAI was added, for instance.
Although I don't think we'd wait for the next 5-year review if an issue came
up. We'd try to deal with it there and then.
And just for the record, we do continuously discuss potential changes and the
need for them. We have been discussing whether there are potential structural
changes to the IESG that would help attract more future candidates, lower AD
workload, for instance. (But that has been a difficult answer to find. So far
one of the conclusions seems to be that adding more ADs will not help that
problem.)
What Jari said.
On timing - most adjustments to the area structure in recent years
happened when the IESG can include the changes in structure in the AD
job descriptions that the IESG sends to NOMCOM.
For instance, when the User Services Area was collapsed to a single
working group, the IESG said NOMCOM didn't have to provide an AD.
Last year, those instructions went to NOMCOM at the end of July. I'd
expect the timing this year to be similar, although I'm not responsible
for anything except the specific description of the TSV AD position, in
concert with my co-AD, so don't know for sure.
Spencer