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Re: [Icar] an early review experiment

Melinda Shore <mshore@cisco.com> Wed, 19 May 2004 19:40 UTC

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Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:04:07 -0400
Subject: Re: [Icar] an early review experiment
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On Wednesday, May 19, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Mark Allman wrote:
>   + one end of the spectrum would be that ICAR-type comments must be
>     addressed before the document moves forward
>
>   + the other end of the space seems to me to be that the ICAR-type
>     reviews are just like any other review that comes in from a
>     community member (i.e., no special status)
>
>   + there may be middle ground

I'm in the middle ground.  It seems to me that what ICAR-type reviews
bring to the wg is external context and persective that isn't available
within the working group.  I wouldn't like to see working group
responsibility for the quality of their own product be shifted to non-
participants.  What I think we need is more checks as documents
progress, and while a working group needs to take review comments
very seriously, sometimes a reviewer is full of crap, too.  I don't
think it's the role of this working group (icar) to make fundamental
changes to the standardization process and responsibilities.  More
validity checks on working group documents earlier in the process: 
great.
Changing the process so that reviewers become responsible for working
group documents: not so great.  And giving reviewers what's essentially
veto power over documents gives them responsibility for those documents.

Melinda


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