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Keith Moore wrote:
Why isn't a larger number of "ADs" - or, more specifically, removing the
review process from the ADs and having a real review group, the solution
here?
The more ADs there are, the more things get bogged down at the IESG
level. ADs need to come to a mutual understanding about what are
reasonable criteria for acceptance of a document (in general and/or for
a specific document), and this is harder when you have more people who
have to agree. More ADs also mean that telechats take longer.
Also, the more ADs there are to provide some kind of "guidance" to a WG,
the more confusing things become for that group. It would be a bit
like a business having multiple managers with direct authority over the
same employee - if the managers don't coordinate well the employees get
caught in the middle.
Moving the process to a real review group at best just moves the
problem - since the WG is ultimately interested in getting the
documents by the review group, those individuals become the people whom
the WGs will consider their managers. So the IESG either becomes
irrelevant (in which case we have essentially moved the IESG's
functionality to the review group) or it starts trying to produce meta-
advice - something close to architectural guidance (in which case it
overlaps IAB's role).
Note that I didn't say that it couldn't be done, I said it was a
difficult problem.
Only if we view this top-down. If the role of the ADs is to make sure a
doc gets reviewed, they can hand it to a WG or a separate "non WG set of
reviewers".
Guidance is just that; not control. The IESG doesn't become irrelevant,
but it ceases to be a program committee for documents, which is, I
believe, a good thing.
Joe
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