My thoughts about the problems of the IETF

[Brian E Carpenter]

Eric Rosen 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.

Obviously, we would adopt an open process for choosing the pool
of reviewers. I would also be in favour of the reviews being posted
on ietf.org.

   Brian