While I am not sure if it’s directly about the IESG's power of
decision, it is another view on what would be necessary to the reduce
the work load on Area Directors. A lot of the work load of the ADs is
reviewing documents. I think an important element of reducing their
work load is having working groups to advance higher quality documents
to the IESG.
it is not clear to me that reducing the workload is a primary goal.
document quality is. some basic management skills, delegation and load
sharing, seem to reduce workload without negatively affecting document
quality.
all serious workers (in the ietf) are overloaded; that's life. ADs are
serious workers, we hope. what i hear them whining about is incoming
document quality from the wgs. if we are going to micro-manage the iesg
as an olympic sport, perhaps we should focus on that.
randy