Keith Moore wrote:
There's already a means for "external reviewers" to do so: read the drafts,
make comments, add issues to the issue tracker. It's really not rocket
science.
That's not quite sufficient, because most WGs aren't proceeding according to
good engineering discipline (e.g. they're doing things in the wrong order, like
trying to define the protocol before the problem space is understood), there's
little external visibility of what the WG is doing (so it's difficult to make
timely input without actually following the entirety of the mailing list
discussion), and often, nobody with any authority over the WG is checking to
see whether the WG is actually responding appropriately to such comments. A
more formal process is necessary.
By whose standard? If you think that's going on, I'd think it would be
appropriate to take it up with the relevent WG chairs and AD's. Last
I heard, they're the stakeholders.
Having some new sclerotic "pipeline" involved with the life
blood of a
working group sounds like a recipe for working group infarction to me.
In other words, we don't want to distract WGs with useful input ... better that
they should keep their heads in the sand for the entire 2-3 years of their
existence and then produce irrelevant or even harmful output. And that way,
maybe a few influential people within the WG can coerce the WG into producing
something that favors their employers' short-term interest even if it harms
other interests or glosses over important limitations.
I repeat:
There's already a means for "external reviewers" to do so: read the drafts,
make comments, add issues to the issue tracker. It's really not rocket
science.
What you seem to want is some sort of cabal of dilettants who
don't actually have to pay very much attention, but by their
rank alone get to exercise veto power. Yuck. I don't suppose
you have anybody in mind for such an IETF version of landed gentry?
Mike
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