Re: [Icar] Re: I-D ACTION:draft-alvestrand-icar-xarea-00.txt

Hi, Harald,

From: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <harald@alvestrand.no>
To: "Spencer Dawkins" <spencer@mcsr-labs.org>rg>; "icar WG"
<icar@ietf.org>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Icar] Re: I-D ACTION:draft-alvestrand-icar-xarea-00.txt

>
>
> --On 19. april 2004 06:46 -0500 Spencer Dawkins
<spencer@mcsr-labs.org>
> wrote:
>
> > At some point, having a single cross-area review board makes more
> > sense. I'm not sure whether we are at that point or not, but I'd
like
> > us to make that decision, instead of assuming a single review
board is
> > obviously the wrong thing to do, and an area-based structure is
the
> > only choice.
>
> Spencer,
>
> are you thinking that there's one single (large) pool of reviewers
from
> which the set of reviewers for a given document is drawn, or are you
> thinking about a single group of reviewers where all reviewers
review all
> documents?
>
> I'm pretty sure you mean the former, but want to make sure.

Yes, that's correct - the scaling problems with the latter are obvious
even to me :-}

>
> One thing I like about a team-based approach is that teammates get
to know
> each other and can learn from each other. And besides, it lessens
the work
> of picking reviewers for a document - rather than having to choose 7
or so
> reviewers, you just choose one team.....

Perhaps I was pre-judging your draft without reading it carefully
enough - you really ARE talking about a TSV area review team (to pick
an area) that contains one reviewer from each OTHER area, appointed by
every OTHER area's director(s), right? I didn't get this the first
time around. Sorry.

Spencer

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