[apps-review] Early Cursory Reviews (Was: Suggested changes for Applications Area Review Team)

[Pete Resnick <[e-mail]>]

SM suggestions look good (caveat the concerns people have about 
auto-assigning things). But I did want to ask folks about one idea that 
I had to add on a task to the Review Team's normal things:

In addition to doing Last Call reviews, I am considering asking folks on 
the review team to do the occasional preliminary early review. What I'm 
thinking of is creating a queue of documents from non-Apps WGs that 
might have Apps implications. For example, I think DNS stuff or things 
like MPTCP, which will eventually need APIs, would be likely candidates 
for things I might want to hear about, whereas BGP would probably not be 
one of these. In general, the ADs would add things to the queue that 
send up their antennae, but anyone would be welcome to throw something 
in the queue that they thought might be interesting. Every so often, 
you'd be asked to do a cursory read of the document and give a few 
sentence summary of whether or not Apps clue might need to be given, the 
size of the clue (gentle nudge or large bats), and the kinds of 
applications that would care.

So the questions for the team:

1. Is this the sort of thing you think you all would be willing to do?
2. How often would you be willing to do it? For example, is it 
reasonable to ask people to look at one document per week for this kind 
of quick review?

One of the things I've been considering coming into the AD position is 
to get more early review done (by everyone, not just me) rather than 
waiting for Last Call, but without some sort of intelligent filtering, 
that would be impossible I think.

Thoughts?

pr

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