Hi, On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 09:09:47PM +0200, denis walker wrote: > Another interesting observation is that before the current chairs of > the DB-WG, ALL previous chairs only ever signed any email with their > first name. None of them ever signed anything 'as' a co-chair. Looking > at other mailing lists, including this AP-WG, most chairs > intermittently sign emails (at least on their own list) with or > without the chair title suffix. Again this goes back to the beginning > of time. So there doesn't seem to be any convention on how chairs sign > emails. Maybe I'll just sign with my name (as many others do), then I > can't be criticised for wearing the wrong hat.
I've had to decide what to put under my name a few times in the last
years... one part of it was "inside 'my' working group" (then AP) - I
tried to only sign as "APWG chair" when it was in the formal role
("call to order", "summarize a discussion", "announce something"),
and putting something else there, like "speaking as LIR contact", when
expressing my more personal opinions, based on experience in that role.
More interesting is "taking part in a different working group's decision"
- there is good reason for "speaking up as WG chair of another WG", like
"my WG tasked me to bring across a WG position" or "from experience in
our WG, I can offer some advice" - but for me, this always was exceptional,
and when I took part in a debate of personal opionions, I tried to leave
the WG out of it ("I do not know what my WG wants, so I cannot speak
for them")...
But you're right this has never been formalized - and I'm not sure it
can be done easily. WGs are different, people are different, personalities
are.
Gert Doering
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