Re: [Icar] an early review experiment

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Mark Allman wrote:

> If I were to sketch the "weighyness" space of early, cross area
> reviews, it'd be something like this:
>
>   + 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
>
> It'd be nice to hear thoughts on where folks are in this space.

IMO, WG MUST publicly address all reviewer concerns, but can do so any
way it wants. WG MAY reject to act on any comment, for any reason, but
MUST publicly document that the comment is rejected and SHOULD
document rejection rationale.  IESG SHOULD NOT review documents with
unaddressed concerns.

For these rules to be meaningful/effective, there has to be a
mechanism/tool to register specific concerns and WG responses to them
(e.g., ID Tracker DISCUSS items on steroids). Just exchanging freeform
e-mails is not good enough.

It seems to me that same rules should apply to any review, regardless
of its source. There may be periods when WG does not accept reviews
for specific documents though (because they are not ready for any kind
of review or because the WG has finished working on them and wants
IESG to take over).

One simple way to manage review timings is to have both First Call and
Last Call for each draft (at least). These calls will make it clear
when reviews are welcome (and when reviewer comments are virtually
guaranteed to be addressed).

I do not know whether the above fits any of the three bullets you
proposed. It seems lile the second bullet because all reviews have the
same status (but I would call that status "special" compared to the
current "no special status" situation), but it also matches the intent
of the first bullet as far as final IESG action is concerned.

HTH,

Alex.

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