The "late surprise" problem

[Bound, Jim]

I have always believe IESG members need Grad Student help to parse the
mass number of documents.  But we must make sure we do not create
another problem of closed-ness which is one "perception" of the IESG.
/jim

 


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Allen [mailto:ChristopherA at AlacrityManagement.com] 
>Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:46 AM
>To: problem-statement at alvestrand.no
>Subject: Re: The "late surprise" problem
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>There was some discussion yesterday in the Open Security Area 
>Directorate meeting in San Francisco about a need for a group 
>under IESG, that had roughly one or two persons for each AD, 
>which provided security reviews of drafts prior to their 
>submissions to last call. This group would also be more 
>officially someone that WG chairs of each Area could call on 
>first for advice.
>
>Like the "SIRs" proposal, one of the 'benefits' of this extra 
>work is that your name is listed as a Senior Security Advisor 
>on the IETF web site.
>
>It was also mentioned that this group would need to fall under 
>the ISOC/IETF liability insurance, for no one wants to do a 
>review if it may open them to liability. I suspect your other 
>SIRs proposal might also need to fall under such insurance.
>
>-- Christopher Allen
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