The "late surprise" problem

[Spencer Dawkins]

Keith's note actually frames a discussion point about SIR pretty
nicely...

Spencer
--- Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu> wrote:
> > Ted and Brian are both right - this is a good thing to do,
> > but not because it prevents late surprises, and we need to
> make
> > sure we don't replace the "IESG is the only sane people at
> IETF"
> > issue with "IESG + SIR are the only sane people at IETF".
> 
> almost everyone at IETF is sane.  some people see the big
> picture 
> better than the details, others vice versa.  we need both
> kinds of 
> people.
> 
> currently WGs supply the details, but hardly anybody thinks
> about the 
> big picture.  IESG is supposed to make sure that both the big
> picture 
> and the details are sane.  but since WGs don't have any early
> input 
> regarding the big picture, IESG is stuck trying to fix big
> picture 
> problems at the last minute.


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