My thoughts about the problems of the IETF

Spencer Dawkins spencer_dawkins at yahoo.com
Fri May 2 07:21:14 CEST 2003


Dear Eric,

Ummm, I can't say this is an unrealistically dark view of the
IESG, but I CAN say it's a very dark view. If it's realistic,
aren't we already dead?

(Or are you saying we're already dead, and just don't know it?)

Spencer

--- Eric Rosen <erosen at cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.  
> 



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