On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 7:36 AM Salz, Rich <rsalz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
- The IESG has had multiple cases during my time there where we haven't had access to some normative reference, and so we can't do our job. This has added long delays to document processing. That's what we're trying to address here.
I believe it is far more common for the IESG to review and progress documents without having all normative references tracked down and read.
The role doesn't matter, does it? As an Area Review Team member or even a Working Group participant faced with a document with normative references behind a paywall, you face the same problem.
Sure, you could make some assumptions that what's in the normative reference is correct, or sane, or trustworthy, or whatever. What if you're wrong? What if you want to be certain?
Shouldn't our processes err on the side of pushing for quality?
-MSK
