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Re: Thought experiment [Re: Quality of Directorate reviews]

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Thu, 07 November 2019 19:33 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Leif Johansson <leifj@mnt.se>
Cc: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>, Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>, IETF <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Thought experiment [Re: Quality of Directorate reviews]
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 06:34:28AM +0100, Leif Johansson wrote:
> > 7 nov. 2019 kl. 02:49 skrev Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>:
> >> Why would that work? Because it now incents the WG chairs by making them,
> >> in effect, where the buck stops. So the WG chairs and AD (typically
> >> a committee of three) will feel the obligation to get everything
> >> right. And it scales.
> > 
> > So, no more IESG review?  What would we need the IESG for anymore?  It
> > would be gone, I guess?
> > 
> > Sure, it will scale better.  But quality will suffer.
> 
> Why do you think that would be the case?

Well, it doesn't necessarily follow that fewer eyeballs / less review ==
poorer quality, but it is a fair assumption.

I don't know what the right thing to do here is, and we might have to
experiment somewhat.  Can we run an experiment where for some WG(s) we
don't require IESG review of their PS documents?

Nico
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