MAJOR ISSUE: Causes of problems

Brian E Carpenter brian at hursley.ibm.com
Tue Jul 8 10:52:58 CEST 2003


Indeed. This is exactly why I harp on about expanding the
number of people trusted to perform peer review, over
in solution space.

The problem here is indeed that we have made the IESG
into a bottleneck for peer review, with evident consequences
for queueing times.

  Brian

"spencer at mcsr-labs.org" wrote:
> 
> Dear Dave,
> 
> I think this falls in the same category as a group of people
> who know what synchronization does to congestion, but
> who continue to let all of the afternoon sessions out at the
> same time the cookies arrive.
> 
> We should know better, but...
> 
> Spencer
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Crocker" <dcrocker at brandenburg.com>
> To: "Bernard Aboba" <aboba at internaut.com>
> Cc: <problem-statement at alvestrand.no>
> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 4:02 PM
> Subject: Re: MAJOR ISSUE: Causes of "problems"
> 
> >
> > In general, we often seem to treat ourselves as having infinite
> > resources.  For a community well-versed in queuing theory, this is
> > rather strange.
> 
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