On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF
<spencerdawkins(_dot_)ietf(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
There's really nothing as awesome as sending Last Call comments on your own
draft. You should try it some time ... or not.
But please see below.
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I had a chat with Scott Bradner today, and Scott asked me to explain some
history in a different way. The text he questioned was this:
OLD
In the distant past, all IETF Areas had a single Area Director. The
movement from single Area Directors in an Area to pairs of Area
Directors in most Areas happened over a period of years (for
reference, see http://www.ietf.org/iesg/past-members.html), as part
of the IESG organizing itself to do the work the IESG is chartered to
do.
END
Scott said that changes in the number of Area Directors assigned to a given
Area during "the modern era", post Kobe, wasn't quite the linear progression
I described, and suggested (my words, trying to capture his thoughts),
something more like this:
NEW
While it's true that recent IESGs have had two Area Directors in each Area
except for the General Area, the number of Area Directors in each Area has
varied since https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1396.txt (for reference, see
http://www.ietf.org/iesg/past-members.html).
This variation was due to a number of factors, including workload and
personal preferences, and happened as a natural part of the IESG organizing
itself to do the work the IESG is chartered to do.
At one point, the IESG placed three Area Directors in a single Area (Scott
Bradner, Deirdre Kostick, and Michael O'Dell, in the Operational &
Management Requirements Area, between IETF 36 and IETF 37 in 1996).
I think it is a good change to the text. It grounds the change to the
limit on the number of ADs in real events.
Thanks,
Donald
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Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell)
155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA
d3e3e3(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
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I wouldn't mind hearing people's opinions about making this change as part
of Last Call, and I don't think the rest of the IESG would mind, either ...
Thanks!
Spencer
Abstract
This document removes a limit on the number of Area Directors who
manage an Area in the definition of "IETF Area". This document
updates RFC 2026 (BCP 9) and RFC 2418 (BCP 25).
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