Re: Voting (again)

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Keith Moore wrote:
>>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?
> 
> 
> The more ADs there are, the more things get bogged down at the IESG
> level. ADs need to come to a mutual understanding about what are
> reasonable criteria for acceptance of a document (in general and/or for
> a specific document), and this is harder when you have more people who
> have to agree.  More ADs also mean that telechats take longer.
> 
> Also, the more ADs there are to provide some kind of "guidance" to a WG,
> the more confusing things become for that group.  It would be a bit
> like a business having multiple managers with direct authority over the
> same employee - if the managers don't coordinate well the employees get
> caught in the middle.
> 
> Moving the process to a real review group at best just moves the
> problem - since the WG is ultimately interested in getting the
> documents by the review group, those individuals become the people whom
> the WGs will consider their managers.  So the IESG either becomes
> irrelevant (in which case we have essentially moved the IESG's
> functionality to the review group) or it starts trying to produce meta-
> advice - something close to architectural guidance (in which case it
> overlaps IAB's role).
> 
> Note that I didn't say that it couldn't be done, I said it was a
> difficult problem.

Only if we view this top-down. If the role of the ADs is to make sure a
doc gets reviewed, they can hand it to a WG or a separate "non WG set of
reviewers".

Guidance is just that; not control. The IESG doesn't become irrelevant,
but it ceases to be a program committee for documents, which is, I
believe, a good thing.

Joe
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