I agree that postmortems can be useful but I'm not sure that doing such on a decision to hire Bill instead of Fred is one of those cases where it woudl be useful, feasiable (due to confidential info including recommendations) or produce any useful results (unless teh reason to hire Bill was that he was the IAD's dad) the same thing with reviewing the decision to hire company A rather than company B - I can see reviewing the process by which the decision was made but I do not think (for teh same reasons above) that the reviewing the decision itself would be all that easy or useful Scott ---- >From hartmans@xxxxxxx Sun Jan 23 15:17:14 2005 X-Original-To: sob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Delivered-To: sob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: sob@xxxxxxxxxxx (Scott Bradner) Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx, margaret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Rough consensus? #425 3.5 References: <20050121141725.5E8E01E4B04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@xxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:17:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050121141725.5E8E01E4B04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Scott Bradner's message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:17:25 -0500 (EST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Bradner <sob@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Scott> ps - I'm not sure that its all that useful to be able to Scott> appeal/review awards if they can not be overturned - Scott> apealing or reviewing the process that was followed is fine Scott> but appealling the actual award seems broken I disagree. Reviewing a specific decision in an operational context to determine whether the right decision was made can be a useful feedback step in a control loop of a system. I've found this to be true whether systems are technical or manigerial. --Sam _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf