Trimming a bit:
On 4 Dec 2018, at 17:37, Ted Hardie wrote:
Howdy Pete,
Please re-read John's message, which includes this:
"its mission was
to advise, inform, and perhaps even educate the community on
i18n issues, rather than merely advising the ART ADs and/or
designating people to perform reviews late in the Last Call
cycle. "
As I have said multiple times, I have no problem with an AD requesting
a
review of a specific individual or set of individuals. But John's
message
is highlighting that this group is meant to be something different
than the
usual directorate.
Certainly to some small extent all of the directorates "advise, inform,
and perhaps even educate the community", as each is willing to do early
reviews, and some of the advisory groups (like the assorted "Doctors")
will help a WG when directly solicited by the WG. The fact that those
duties get a more formal mention in the mission of the i18n directorate
doesn't give me pause. But what I was responding to was this part of
your earlier message:
On 4 Dec 2018, at 16:02, Ted Hardie wrote:
...I inferred that the intent was to set up a group with an
independent authority to foster work or block documents.
Like Ben, I see nothing in John's words (or any of the discussions of
the directorate) that indicate any power to "block documents", let alone
some other sort of special "independent authority" (beyond what we
already have experience with). And that seems the real basis for your
objection. I think perhaps you're tilting at a windmill.
That concerns me, especially if it is meant to have a
review power beyond "advising the ART ADs", which is what (ART)
directorates do. Soliciting and receiving that advice is the state
you're
pointing to, and but John has asserted this is not that.
John has asserted that it is not *only* that. But the only thing that it
appears to be beyond that is a group that can, as John said, "advise,
inform, and perhaps even educate the community".
Given that
assertion, I think the community ought to know and have a voice in
what it
is instead.
If it had any additional authority, I would agree. It does not appear
to, and therefore I do not.
I also am disappointed that the ART ADs did not simply ask the
relevant
questions of the people that they would or will put on the
Directorate, if
they are seeking the usual sort of advice. There is no power in the
advice
coming from a directorate rather than Individual 1 or 2. But that is a
timing question, not a process point.
There is no power, but often there is more organization. That seems like
a legitimate reason for the pause.
pr
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