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

2014-12-08 15:30:24

This isn't really a comment on the text of this draft but...

On 08/12/14 21:11, Martin Vigoureux wrote:

For me what makes a chair a chair is the former, not the latter, because
of the authority dimension.

Here's a different (not better, different) perspective: what makes the
IETF the IETF is partly the volunteer work ethic - having chairs, ADs
etc do grunt work is arguably essential to that. From that perspective,
more and better-defined secretarial roles have a (not wholly, just
partly) negative aspect.

S.

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