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 -- frequent mailing list poster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Michael Emmer Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279