My thoughts about the problems of the IETF

[Eric Rosen]

> two ways that outside reviewers might help reduce workload: 

> 1. require all documents to have N favorable outside reviews, each
> from an IESG-appointed reviewer pool, before going to IESG review

> 2. provide that any document which has more than Z unfavorable
> reviews from the reviewer pool need not be considered by IESG

This has the obvious problem that the IESG could stack the pool of reviewers
so  as  to  achieve any  goal  they  want,  and  there  would be  even  less
accountability than there is today.