Re: [Icar] icar futures?

Scott W Brim <swb@employees.org> Thu, 14 October 2004 17:36 UTC

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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:17:41 -0400
From: Scott W Brim <swb@employees.org>
To: Robert Snively <rsnively@Brocade.COM>
Subject: Re: [Icar] icar futures?
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 08:06:09AM -0700, Robert Snively allegedly wrote:
> The way to get meaningful reviews is to find those people who are
> truly interested and motivated.  
...
> Thus my continuing wish for
> active external liaison activities and broadly targeted solicitation
> of reviews.
> 
> Making a call for "reviewers" in general will usually have the results
> you have seen here.  Until you have a particular document that is
> important to a person, that person will simply not volunteer to review
> it.  IESG actions and arm-twisting activities will not change that
> meaningfully.  

Agreed.  So what I meant by going to the WGs directly was that we
solicit them to propose specific documents, and then we issue a call for
reviewers for those documents (or groups of documents).  Interesting
documents will get motivated reviewers (I hope?).  


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