Right, and soon after that people would start listing their RFCs in their
resumes...
The point is that this scoring system already exists in the IETF, IMO. An
author of an RFC gets his/her name on the front page which works in two ways:
the authors get recognition for their work, but at the same time you don't want
to produce crap, because implementors will know who wrote it. I think this
actually increases the quality of work. Perhaps we just need a note to RFC 3160
bis that says:
If you want to get ahead in the IETF, it's imperative that you review,
contribute and author work. There's no short cut to being invited to
have lunch with the ADs. ;)
Cheers,
Aki
-----Original Message-----
From: ext Nikhil Mittal [mailto:nikhil(_at_)east(_dot_)isi(_dot_)edu]
Sent: 20 March, 2003 22:30
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: RE: How to get more reviewers for documents
Then it becomes a reward based system which breeds aspirations for
recognition and fame more than delivering some good work.
Nikhil
-----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 2:34 PM
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