--On tirsdag, oktober 05, 2004 12:04:26 -0400 John C Klensin
<john-ietf(_at_)jck(_dot_)com> wrote:
We have considered such a model; in fact the General Area
Review Team (gen-ART) has proved to me that it is possible to
get a great deal done on a volunteer basis - and even more if
you get someone to act as "secretary" for it, such as Avri
Doria is now doing (Thank you, team!)
(see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/review-guidelines.html
for details)
We could quibble about this, and, in particular, about whether
it is/would be adequate for _standards_ processing as distinct
from the things that fall within the General Area. If it were
both adequate and helpful (at least without fine tuning), the
fact that it is being done in this way only in the General Area
would suggest that the other ADs like the workload, are
incompetent, etc. I don't believe that, so I have to believe
that the model you suggest won't generalize without tuning, and
that brings me back to me assertion above.
actually the Gen-ART review is a late-review function, and applies to ALL
documents, not just General area docs - and I intend to put it forward as a
model for "late review" in the ICAR WG once that WG turns its attention to
"late review".
As for generalizing it to other areas - the inspiration for it came from
experience in the Ops and Routing area directorates, which again was based
on some experience from the MIB doctors and the Security directorate. I'm
more fond of writing than most, so the Gen-ART team is more documented than
other processes. I assume we need to tune it for wider usage - I was
mentioning it as an example of what we are able to do without formalized,
paid-for support - which could be improved with such support.
I do think our thoughts run very much in parallel - I'll be interested to
hear more of why you think the "scenario O" organizational format will make
it hard to make those support functions work.
Harald
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