[Internal-cg] Results of chair structure poll

James M. Bladel jbladel at godaddy.com
Thu Jul 31 23:05:29 UTC 2014


Sounds good to me.  Let¹s do this and put this issue in our rear-view
mirror.

Thanks‹

J.


On 7/31/14, 17:05 , "Paul Wilson" <pwilson at apnic.net> wrote:

>Thanks Alissa, for your very considered approach.
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>I agree with your proposal.
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>Paul
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>On 1 Aug 2014, at 7:32 am, Joseph Alhadeff <joseph.alhadeff at oracle.com>
>wrote:
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>> Ok as well.
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Hartmut Richard Glaser <glaser at cgi.br>
>>wrote:
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>>> 
>>> I am OK with one chair and two vice chairs (1+2).
>>> =========================================
>>> 
>>> On 31/07/14 17:59, Alissa Cooper wrote:
>>>> I have reviewed the results of the chair poll
>>>><http://tinyurl.com/ptrr2m6>
>>>> 
>>>> and wanted to summarize where I think we are. Twenty-one ICG
>>>>participants
>>>> responded to the poll (out of 30).*
>>>> 
>>>> There were four choices for people to provide feedback about in the
>>>>poll:
>>>> 
>>>> One chair with one alternate (³1+1²)
>>>> Two co-chairs (³2²)
>>>> One chair with two alternates (³1+2²)
>>>> Three co-chairs (³3²)
>>>> 
>>>> There was no clear consensus among respondents about their preference
>>>> among the above choices ‹ in fact responses were fairly evenly split
>>>>among
>>>> all four choices. Ten people preferred the options that would yield
>>>>two
>>>> chairs (1+1 or 2); 11 people preferred options that would yield three
>>>> chairs (1+2 or 3). The option preferred by the greatest number of
>>>> respondents was (3), with seven responses in favor, compared to five
>>>>for
>>>> (1+1), five for (2), and four for (1+2).
>>>> 
>>>> The rationales given for people¹s choices related primarily to
>>>> organizational concerns (i.e., which structure will make it easiest to
>>>> share the workload, determine consensus, organize amongst the chairs
>>>> themselves), diversity/balance of many sorts among the chairs, and
>>>> political aspects. These rationales were argued in different
>>>>directions,
>>>> for and against the different options ‹ again no consensus that I
>>>>could
>>>> see.
>>>> 
>>>> The poll also asked about which options people can¹t live with. Five
>>>> respondents said they could not live with (3), four said they could
>>>>not
>>>> live with (2), and each of the other options had two respondents each.
>>>> Most respondents could live with all four options.
>>>> 
>>>> So, it¹s not obvious what to do here. Here is my suggestion, in the
>>>>spirit
>>>> of compromise:
>>>> 
>>>> We go with one chair and two vice chairs (1+2) where the work is
>>>>expected
>>>> to be divided among all three people. This can mitigate some of the
>>>> organizational concerns (since there will be one chair to be the
>>>>backstop
>>>> responsible for getting things done if necessary) while providing
>>>>three
>>>> slots¹ worth of opportunity for diversity of different flavors. More
>>>> people preferred options that would yield three chairs, so this fits
>>>>that
>>>> bill, and among the two options for that, (1+2) was the less
>>>>controversial
>>>> (most everyone can live with it).
>>>> 
>>>> My hope is that people can accept this compromise in the interest of
>>>> getting on with the real work at hand -- if you absolutely cannot live
>>>> with this, please say so by Aug 5 at 20:00 UTC (if you're ok with it,
>>>> hearing that would be helpful too). Assuming people can accept this
>>>> approach, I¹d like to ask Joe to figure out a process for conducting
>>>>an
>>>> email vote or some such to get people appointed to these roles next
>>>>week.
>>>> 
>>>> Alissa
>>>> 
>>>> * One member of the community also responded.
>>>> 
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