-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: >>So the real requirement is to reduce the load the IETF places on an AD. > > > This seems like an extremely difficult problem to me. Most of IESG's > workload is in reviewing technical specifications. I don't see any way > to provide good quality technical specifications without a final review > by a group of technically adept individuals with a broad range of > expertise. Other groups solve this by distributing that load - which also solves the problem of individuals with bones to pick. They get outnumbered ;-) > To significantly reduce the load that the IETF places on an AD basically means one or more of the following: > > - fewer WGs (and a higher bar for chartering new WGs) > - fewer documents (say, a quota on the number of documents a WG can produce) > - shorter documents (say, a per-document page quota) > - fewer WG participants > - a further degradation in document quality Why isn't a larger number of "ADs" - or, more specifically, removing the review process from the ADs and having a real review group, the solution here? Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCbsnnE5f5cImnZrsRApu7AKDT9pn3iyHlEWoMDUj7MobaTt42SACdH+66 CndiC35Goq89fYa7ORiYh9o= =wcAv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf