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Re: Last Call: <draft-secretaries-good-practices-06.txt> (IETF Working Groups' Secretaries) to Best Current Practice

2014-12-07 20:52:05

On Dec 3, 2014, at 11:54 AM, John C Klensin <john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

Secretaries are fine but, if 2418 is changed, the change
shouldn't be to institutionalize Secretaries either.  It should:

(1) Make clear that the statements in 2418 about Secretaries are
to be taken as examples, not limits.

(2) Make clear that WG Chairs can, subject to review with/by the
relevant AD, delegate anything they like to anyone they like and
that such delegations should allow whatever access to tools,
etc., is needed to do the job... as long as such delegations do
no change the responsibility and accountability of the with WG
Chair.  If a WG Chair (after whatever consultation with the
relevant AD they consider appropriate) wants to delegate some
tasks to someone who is not an officially-designated WG
Secretary, we shouldn't have documents that accidentally get in
the way.

For the record, I'm not convinced that a change to 2418 is
needed for the above: the IESG has claimed, and gotten away
with, far more significant changes to procedures my means of
"statements" and the 2418 text does not appear to me to contain
any words that restrict access to tools that did not exist when
it was written.

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