On Jan 1, 2007, at 4:49 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
... regardless of what we do, some
of these will ultimately hit the IESG during final review (as
well as agreeing that the Kerberos WG is a poor example).
However, I think your comment could be construed as a little too
accepting of the situation. From my point of view, any time
that one of these situations is not discovered before Last Call
is an indication of a failure in the system, a failure that the
relevant ADs should be examining carefully in the hope of
preventing future failures of the same or similar nature.
john
Indeed, although surprise issues are not completely avoidable, we
should look on each one as an opportunity to ask "how could we have
caught this one earlier" (just like bugs in software found after
checkin).
So... how do we do better generally? One possible approach: I'm
hoping that creating outside-expert review process for early review
will help with this a bit. It might not help much but it's not a
very expensive experiment to run. We've already got a few groups of
experts (directorates, area review teams) who've volunteered to do
early review. Last week I posted to the WG chairs list asking who
wanted to volunteer their documents to go through this a little more
formally, with a bit of tracking of what reviews are requested and
received.
Lisa
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