On Oct 18, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Mary Barnes
<mary(_dot_)h(_dot_)barnes(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
[MB] Can you clue us in as to what "substantial action" has been taken?
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I thought we sent something around about that. ADs and WG chairs are
encouraged to ask for directorate reviews for certain directorates (possibly
all directorates, I can't remember) prior to working group last call. This is
in the form of an experiment, not a new policy; we'll see how it goes.
We've done a number of other things in the same vein—e.g., document shepherds
are now being invited onto telechats, so that they can do the work of tracking
action items for the authors rather than the AD doing it.
I think there were other items on the list, but I don't remember them off the
top of my head. The point is, if anybody thinks the IESG is a deer in the
headlights on this issue, that's not the case—we are actively trying to do
things to ameliorate the situation.