The need for smaller protocol specifications

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Wed Jun 11 13:23:53 CEST 2003


On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> >>>>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Patrik F=E4ltstr=F6m?= writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Thanks for your note - I appreciate it.

Also totally agree; very well written note, and one I agree with :-).

> Patrik> But, I definitely think we need to talk more carefully about
> Patrik> where the review is done, and how we make sure it is done. 
> 
> Serious document reviews take time (a) for the review itself plus (b)
> for the followup discussions (and in my experience b >> a). The only
> reward for such a time investment is (perhaps) being mentioned in the
> acknowledgements section.
> 
> To achieve more and better reviews, we simply have to make it more
> attractive for people to spend their time on serious reviews.

I agree.  My experience is that even if you very detailed reviews, people
don't always acknowledge you.  Many don't even have the acknowledgements
sections in the drafts.

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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