At 05:10 PM 12/19/2000, Scott Bradner wrote:
> > Nothing personal Frank, but in a general sense I'd say you weren't doing
> > your job well enough.
>
>easy to say if you have not been and AD
>Frank was a good AD and managed WGs as well as any of us (and better than
>many)
>yet getting people out of presentation mode is hard and takes previewing
>the actual presentations - not something that an AD can do (nor should
>an AD be THAT involved) - Alliosn & I sent mail to teh TSV WG chairs
>before the SD IETF meeting reminding the chairs that technology
>presentations were notthe best use of session time and yet many
>of the TSV WGs still had that type of presentations (including
>the tsvwg which we chair)
Yes, Frank was a very good AD and as I said, nothing personal. But as AD's
you all have the power to shape the meeting and choose or replace chairs.
And as I've said in other forums, AD's have way too much to handle these
days and the IETF is suffering a bit because of that.
Something said in the SEAMOBY meeting was especially disturbing. The chair
said that "it wasn't fair to the presenters" to cut them off. This came
after the room gave resounding applause to cutting them off. Why do we have
to be fair to the presenters? Why can't we be fair to the WG as a whole?
I'll note a disclaimer that SEAMOBY was scheduled and formed as a WG very
late in the game and the chairs perhaps didn't have enough time to organize
better. But the same complaint could be made at many other WG meetings.
-Matt (cc'ing the IESG since this is directed primarily to them)
