t.petch <[email protected]> wrote: > From: "John Leslie" <[email protected]> >>> --On Sunday, October 23, 2011 07:05 -0700 "Murray S. Kucherawy" >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> ... I also am very familiar with the fact that getting work done >>>> on lists can be a real challenge: People get sidetracked and can >>>> take days, weeks, or even months to answer something that's >>>> holding up a working group. >> >> But _why_ is that something "holding up a working group"? > > Because they are the one holding the token, usually the editorship of > the I-D, and everyone else must wait for a revised version, for a > response to LC comments etc.
This is _not_ a good way to run a mailing-list! > Harking back to Melinda's comment, this is where chairmanship comes > in; the good chairs will chivy, poke and prod so that the hold-ups > are minimised... The WGC cannot always manage this alone... > And sometimes WG chairs should prod ADs, sometimes vice versa. ADs don't have as much time available for this as you think... > What is difficult in our structure is for those without a formal role > to insert a chivy without causing offence; A "chivy", almost by definition, is bound to cause offense. But a posted question, expecting an answer from a WGC, can be effective. > this is where face-to-face, with its vastly richer communication > channel, is superior. True, but three times a year isn't often enough. :^( -- John Leslie <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
