Trusting the IESG to manage the reform process (was:Re:Doingthe Right Things?)

[Bound, Jim]

Reward and Punshiment should be used more.  
/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:ekr at rtfm.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:13 PM
> To: Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
> Cc: problem-statement at alvestrand.no; Brian E Carpenter
> Subject: Re: Trusting the IESG to manage the reform process 
> (was:Re:Doingthe Right Things?)
> 
> 
> "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen at lucent.com> writes:
> 
> > > > 
> > > > Absent specific proposals, we cannot know whether the cited 
> > > > problem of a bottleneck requires us "to change the way we make 
> > > > decisions" or more simply requires that we do 
> divide-and-conquer 
> > > > with existing tasks and responsibilities.
> > > > 
> > > > If the latter suffices, then in fact we continue to 
> make decisions 
> > > > in the same way. We simply target different types of 
> decisions to 
> > > > different groups.
> > > 
> > > ...or simply give the existing decision-taking group 
> better input to 
> > > work with, such as fully reviewed and nit-free documents.
> > > 
> > Amen!
> 
> I'm afraid we're now back to the issue I mentioned before SF. 
> Do WGs get rewarded for producing such documents and punished 
> for not producing them. I'm not sure that's true. To the 
> extent it's not, it's hardly surprising that they don't.
> 
> -Ekr
> 
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> [Eric Rescorla                                   ekr at rtfm.com]
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