On 7 July 2014 09:51, Carol Moore dc <carolmooredc@verizon.net> wrote:

While I've barely had a chance to read through proposal and comments, I'd like to just ask re the below which applies generally right now:

On 7/7/2014 9:35 AM, Risker wrote:

I know what it's like to have my inbox flooded with requests for assistance in relation to dispute resolution - just for oversight requests I get an average of 8 emails a day, when I was on arbcom it was over 100/day to various lists for various purposes. (Yes, it's one of the reasons that people burn out.)

*Is it possible to establish a group of editors called "arbcom assistants" who would be admins appointed by arbcom to help with the workflow??

Well. It's hard enough to get qualified volunteers to work on Arbcom, and their work is mainly on major cases with a lot of participants about disputes that have been adversely affecting the project for an extended period of months or in some cases years. There are arbcom clerks, whose job it is to keep the (few) cases moving relatively smoothly, and there's a bit of dispute resolution there. It looks like there are four of them - probably an historic low, and looking at the list I'm pretty sure two of them are actually inactive.

Arbcom moving out of their very narrow scope has been very loudly and vigorously opposed by the community, and Arbcom itself is looking to try to divest itself of several of its current responsibilities rather than considering taking on anything new. This is absolutely *not* a job for arbcom. It's pretty much the kind of thing that arbitrators kept finding in their mailboxes that someone expected them to solve, but took hours away from the work they were supposed to be doing, and required the individual arbitrators to act on their own because the matter was outside of jurisdiction.

Risker/Anne