My thoughts about the problems of the IETF

[Charlie Perkins]

Hello folks,

I think that getting outside reviewers is a very helpful idea,
and I would volunteer to review drafts on a regular basis.
If the result were to speed up the promulgation of quality
specifications, that would even simplify some aspects of the
work I am to do for my employer.

I observe that this strategy, while likely to be very helpful,
has some failure modes.  But we can fix those by process and
by experience, and I think it would be better to get started
so that we can get the benefits right away and make further
process improvements sooner as needed.

Sort-of like the arguments about why we need Proposed
Standards sooner so we can make needed improvements
based on experience.

Regards,
Charlie P.




john.loughney at nokia.com wrote:

>Hi Spenser,
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>>If Harald is saying "it's impossible to do an AD's job" and
>>there aren't 13 postings back saying "you're wrong", I'm taking
>>this as a signal that we should minimize the amount of new work
>>we dump on IESG members.
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>I agree with this.  I think that asking the IESG to do to much does
>create a scaling problem.  I know (even if I were qualified) that
>I would not have the time & maybe not the desire to be an IESG
>member.
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>Getting more clueful people involved has been suggested (for example,
>as expert reviewers).  I'm wondering how many people here feel like
>they would volunteer time for this kind of activity.  On a few
>occassions, I've given my opinion on some drafts when asked by
>an AD, but I'm having a lot of trouble keeping up with things in
>the IETF needed by my day job.
>
>John
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