Re: [I18ndir] I-D on filesystem I18N

[Patrik Fältström <[e-mail]>]

On 7 Jul 2020, at 21:16, John C Klensin wrote:

> However, with regard to doing that sort of collaboration
> (independent of a few reviews of documents from assorted IETF WGs), the directorate seems to be both disfunctional and lacking any form of leadership or guidance.   And, if we can't get
> enough collaboration (or some form of aggressive push-back), I think the experience with RFC 8753 and with 5891bis strongly suggests that more work on any of those documents may be a waste of effort.

I agree with this, but I think we also agree one of the problems is a combination of lack of time and competence.

I think we because of this have a few different (!) problems to work with:

- How do people that have competence get more time?

- How do we grow the number of people that do have competence?

- What do we do in the meantime?

Unfortunately I think this list/ad-hoc-group (I do not want to call it directorate really because of the "low quality review process we have", because although we have a somewhat dysfunctional process, we do have a process, we do have a group of people on this list, and sometimes some of us do have a few cycles to spare.

With these few cycles, we get documents and statements and review to some level of quality.

Meta questions are then:

- Is this review enough?

- How do we know the answer to the previous question is correct?

But in the mean time, we just have to work with what we have :-(

I do not like it, but...not as many people are interested in I18N as we want, and definitely not as many as IETF needs.

   Patrik