Alissa,
On 01/04/2016 11:38, Alissa Cooper wrote:
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1) I agree with other commenters' concerns about the definition of
"participating" with respect to WG chairs and ADs. In particular in the
context of section 6, this seems like it could limit the pool of people who
can stand for AD roles, because you're not allowed to participate in cases
where you won't be able to disclose, but you have no idea a priori what WGs
will get chartered in your area and what work items they might take up.
I don't see what's new about this - it's always been an awkward point. I worked
for
a major patent-generating company while I was in the IESG ten years ago, and I
had
to pay attention to this. I'm not saying it isn't a problem, but I don't see
that
tightening up the language really makes the problem any worse. (However, I still
don't see any need to state the obvious, i.e. that WG Chairs and ADs are
participants, unless they recuse themselves on a particular matter.)
Brian