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

[Bill Fenner]

>maybe we should look at the time to process through iesg and the
>reasons we can find.  i do not claim to know any answer, but of
>course have silly perceptions based on my narrow little view of the
>movie.  so it would be really good to have some actual data.  would
>be nice if bill, harald, or someone with time could find a way to
>get something real on which we could base a discussion.

I just wrote a quick hack to analyze the data I have, and put the
results at http://rtg.ietf.org/~fenner/iesg/docstates.txt .  There
are two types of entries in this file - one for the first time
we see a document in my snapshots, e.g.

20020506        draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2292bis    entered system in Requested

and then once for each time it changes state:

20030312        draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2292bis    IESG Evaluation -> Approved-announcement to be sent after 11 days

There is some noise in the data, like the tildes swapping with dashes
in this example:

20030426        draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups     IESG Evaluation ~~ Revised ID Needed -> IESG Evaluation  -- Revised ID Needed after 170 days
20030525        draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups     IESG Evaluation  -- Revised ID Needed -> IESG Evaluation ~~ Revised ID Needed after 29 days

but I'll wait for some evidence that cleaning up the data is desired
or useful before putting more work into it.  (plenty of data, not
clear if there's any information...)

  Bill