[Icar] Reviewers: One single group or per-area groups?

   Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:13:23 -0700 (MST)
   From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@measurement-factory.com>

   I see no essential difference between a single board with members that
   specialize in certain areas and multiple boards with members
   specializing in board-specific area.

I saw this from Alex (and realized a couple others had the same
concern, so this isn't really directed at just this remark, but using
it as a launching point).  Since I'm the one who stood up at the
plenary to point out an essential difference, I guess maybe I should
try and reinforce it.

I, personally, do not consider myself tied to any area.  There is no
area in the IETF in which more than a few of the WGs are interesting
to me and there is no area in the IETF in which I have not been an
active participant in at least one WG at some point.  There are a few
areas that I spend more time with than others, but I think of myself
more as a generalist than as any of these.  As such, I haven't been
tempted to join any of the area-specific oversight groups, but rather
have just offerred reviews on an ad-hoc basis...

I think one of the most important goals of this group is generalized
cross-fertilization, and it's just the sort of generalists who
wouldn't be part of an area-specific group, but might be part of a
single group, who can, possibly, offer the most in such an effort.
So, in that regard, there's probably a fair amount of difference
between those two organizational structures.  They will encourage
different classes of people to participate.

	-MAP

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