Re: [Pesci-discuss] For whom it may concern..

Thomas Narten wrote:
>>FWIW, I don't think this helps all that much for the cases when the 
>>IESG is the bottleneck; however, I'm assuming that:
> 
> 
>>  - each AD regularly monitors his/hers I-D tracker pile
> 
> 
> I think this happens less often than would be ideal. A week here a
> week there, pretty soon we're talking about real time...
> 
> 
>>  - each AD regularly checks out the exceptions [0] to figure out if
>>    he/she missed something
> 
> 
> Ditto.  Indeed, if you believe offloading ADs is necessary, this is a
> prime example of where it could be done.
> 
> 
>>[0] http://rtg.ietf.org:8080/Test/tracker_exceptions
> 
> 
>>If these assumptions hold, sending mails won't help.
> 
> 
>>On the other hand, the notifications might be very helpful for cases 
>>where the ball is believed to be at the authors/WG's feet, and AD 
>>would need to find time to ping those folks (and now the system does 
>>that automatically).
> 
> 
> The system does not do that automatically now. Or just barely.
> 
> The email notification facilities in tracker are rudimentary. They
> only happen for a limited number of state changes. They do not send
> followups after an initial note. Only the AD can enter the email
> addresses of those that get pinged (and if an email address goes bad,
> its not obvious that anyone notices). In practice, many documents
> don't have correct email addresses, etc., etc.
> 
> This could be improved (and many people have suggested worthwhile
> improvements), but requires improvements to tracker. And that work is
> pretty much on hold until the secretariat transition to Neustar
> completes...

This is all very much on the IESG radar screen and is why we are
planning an efficiency retreat, as I mentioned in plenary, and why
the PROTO team is looking at necessary tool updates, as Allison
mentioned in plenary.

All this is *procedural* improvement, and not process reform.
What we want to look at here is process reform.

     Brian

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