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

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Fri, 11 November 2005 01:56 UTC

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Spencer Dawkins wrote:
...

> When we have actually DONE something, it's usually been good. I'm 
> thinking about the I-D Tracker, and the semi-related PROTO work, which 
> has had more impact on the IETF than all the noodling about process 
> change we've done since Yokohama.

I think Pekka is indeed underestimating the impact of those
two improvements (and there is more we can do by adding new
features to the tracker to directly support the PROTO
mechanism). I can testify that the internal efficiency of the
IESG is much greater today than it was some years ago (when
I sat in on the IESG as IAB chair). But I think Ted Hardie put
his finger on something rather vital when he stated the need
for more parallelism. For a community that builds high performance
routers, this should be obvious. Regardless of formal process
change, we need to increase parallelism.

     Brian


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