Sorry, but I hate this idea. The whole notion of points is bad. I was not at
the Plenary so I don't know what exactly went on, but this smells of the "how
many papers did you write?" numbers game that assistant professors have to play.
The IETF is political enough as it is, with endless debates on every topic,
without having to encourage that with points for postings, points for IDs,
points for attendance, ... This encourages competition of the worst kind.
-Vach
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org]On Behalf Of
aki(_dot_)niemi(_at_)nokia(_dot_)com
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 11:34 AM
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: How to get more reviewers for documents
Hi,
I'm going to half bake an idea here on how to get people more involved.
There are on-line gaming communities on the Internet that are loosely
assembled on a game site, there are usually no memberships, and
people group together to form klans and arrange games against other
klans or teams. Tough guys (or increasingly nowadays gals), have high
frags rates, or high scores or whatever, and are thus more likely to
be "invited" to klans and get-togethers. These high scores don't come
easy though, but require vast amounts of play time on-line, so an
occasional visitor will not likely get into the "inner circles".
Now, I think such an online gaming community is a pretty good
approximation of the IETF. The only thing we don't have is a scoring system.
So how about creating one for the IETF? A participant could get
points from reviewing documents, taking part in mailing list
discussions, attending meetings, writing drafts etc. The chairs could
keep a list of the high scorers and publish it for all to see. We
could document this in a BCP, so that all new attendees would
immediately know that getting into the inner circles requires vast
amounts of play time on-line, instead of say being extra friendly
towards a chair or AD.
I think this sort of thing would accomplish the incentive aspect Eric
Rescorla was after at the mike last night, and also make the
mechanism by which people move up in the hierarchy of the IETF
explicit and public (also mentioned at the mike last night).
Cheers,
Aki