Re: [Icar] icar futures?

Scott-

(our first volunteer reviewer, btw; thanks!)

> I still think it's the right idea, I think people are just busy.
> Let's poll the wg-chairs and see where they stand.  We don't need the
> IESG, we can find an initial set of WGs ourselves, eh?

Let me play the devil's advocate here...

  * "people are just busy"

    I agree.  I are such a people.

    But, if we have to twist people's arms to get them to volunteer to
    be reviewers, what indication do we have that they will actually do
    reviews?  I know a lot of people whom I could likely cajole onto the
    list of reviewers, howwver, it is not clear to me that such a path
    is really the right model.

  * "we don't need the IESG"

    I agree that we do not need this bit of help from the IESG to get
    things started.  I think the broader issue here is that the IESG is
    not enthusiastic about ICAR early review.  Is it reasonable to hope
    to see this sort of thing widely used without some support from the
    IESG?  (Maybe it is... but, I'd like to hear someone argue the
    point.)

On the "poll the wg-chairs" part, I am not sure what you mean.  I did
attempt to solicit reviewers from the WG chair mailing list.  

allman

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