Re: WG management

[Henning Schulzrinne <hgs at cs.columbia.edu>]

> It does have standing; section 6.2 of RFC 2418 (BCP 25). They can be listed
> on the charter page. But I agree it's little used.

Creating a culture of grooming secretaries to become WG chairs will 
help, in my opinion, to deal with the chair supply problem and will 
allow evaluation of possible chairs ahead of time, plus presuambly 
increase the motivation of the secretary to perform above expectation.

Again, similar arrangements seem very common in the various technical 
subgroupings of major societies (ACM Sigcomm, IEEE ComSoc technical 
committees).

I suspect that one could even argue that there's a need for an area 
secretary/manager (or two), with explicit process acceleration 
responsibilities, rather than technical review.

I'm sure others will correct me here, but I believe that the IEEE 802.* 
organizations have similar arrangements. A random example includes 
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/19/

Henning


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