Now Exactly What are they spending Time ON (Newton)
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Title Now Exactly What are they spending Time ON (Newton)
Last updated 2023-09-28
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Editor Adrian Farrel
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Name: Now Exactly What are they spending Time ON (Newton)

Description

The amount of time consumed by the AD could impact the ADs' ability to
keep up with the work and facilitate working group and document progress
in a timely manner. Additionally, a perception of a high workload for
ADs may restrict the candidate pool to only those who can get funding
support or have sufficient time. This, in turn, means a loss in
diversity such that the IESG would tend to be dominated by employees of
large corporations.

In order to better understand the scope of this problem, we need to
determine what the time commitment is for ADs. And, if this is a
significant amount of time that effects delivery in the role or
constrains nominations, then it will be desirable to further understand
how the total time breaks down into component tasks so that it is
possible to consider how to rebalance, mitigate, or reduce the
workload if the time spent is not matching the community's priorities.

The purpose of this BoF is to gather a community of interest to
determine the mechanics for finding out how the IESG spends its time
and for collecting and analysing the data. The suggestion is to form
a GEN Area working group to complete the tasks.

Required Details

  • Status: WG Forming
  • Responsible AD: Lars Eggert
  • BOF proponents: Rich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com>, Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk>
  • BOF chairs: TBD
  • Number of people expected to attend: 50
  • Length of session (1 or 2 hours): 1 hours
  • Conflicts (whole Areas and/or WGs)
  • Chair Conflicts: TBD
  • Technology Overlap: GEN Area
  • Key Participant Conflict: TEAS, CATS, PCE, SPRING, MPLS, RTGWG, HTTPAPI

Information for IAB/IESG

To allow evaluation of your proposal, please include the following items:

  • Any protocols or practices that already exist in this space: None known
  • Which (if any) modifications to existing protocols or practices are required: None
  • Which (if any) entirely new protocols or practices are required: IESG members "required" to track their time
  • Open source projects (if any) implementing this work: None although open source tools might be investigated for time tracking

Agenda

  • Administrivia (5 : 5/60)
  • Purpose and non-purpose of BoF (5 : 10/60)
  • Problem statement and discussion (15 : 25/60)
  • Way forward, non-objectives, and charter (30 : 55/60)
  • Conclusions (5 : 60/60)