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Re: registries and designated experts

2012-06-12 20:16:11
* Dave Crocker wrote:
It's almost inevitable that many designated experts will, in fact, act 
as gatekeepers.  For example the distinction between "won't do damage" 
vs. "looks like excellent engineering" is more subtle in practice than 
one might think.  Especially absent very precise specification of review 
criteria and absent actual training of the reviewers.

It seems to me that if an expert reviewer thinks that something will do
notable harm, they should decline to make a decision and defer it to the
IETF at large; and any registration procedure that does not allow that
is broken. (Similarily, let's assume that something will do harm, but an
expert reviewer fails to see it, but others do: they should have the a-
bility to appeal expert reviewer decisions, so the matter can be brought
to the attention of more and possibly better qualified people; if that
is not an option, the process is broken; if, on the other hand, nobody
cares to use available procedures, including making a big fuss over it
in the regular press, or whatever, then it probably was not important e-
nough.)
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