Re: IESG Issue 24

[RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>]

On Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003, at 09:21 America/Montreal, Scott Bradner 
wrote:
> > Questions:
> >
> > Should the question of starting time for IAB be separated from the
> > question of IESG?
>
> yes
>
> > Should it be pointed out that since IAB members do not replace 
> > specific
> > IAB members, it is consistent that new IAB members may overlap with
> > retiring IAB members?
>
> no - just say that the IAB term ends at the end of the week

	In practice, there have been at least 2 occasions in the past
4 years when an outgoing IAB member left the "sitting IAB" at the
beginning of the week.  One of these was in San Francisco 2003,
where following current procedures, I arranged with Itojun that
he would replace me as the "sitting IAB member" at the start of
the week.  I attended several IAB functions during that week,
by way of helping with transition, but I was not a "sitting
member" while doing so.

	So I would say it is undesirable to have a fixed handoff
at the end of the week.  If there is to be a fixed handoff,
it would best be start of the week.  My preference would be
that the current, flexible, "during the week" handoff be retained,
however.

Ran Atkinson
rja@extremenetworks.com