> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On > > The only way to releive work is to distribute it, not > concentrate it. > > False. You can also relieve work while keeping throughput > constant by reducing overhead. > > Distributing work often reduces throughput by creating more > overhead. Only a few applications are embarassingly parallel > - most do not scale well as the number of PEs is increased. Keith is absolutely right here. If you give the job of reviewing documents to 20 people instead of 5 you have just quadrupled the amount of work. The way to reduce work is by subsidiarity - devolve decision making to the lowest possible level. Adding people to a committee does not help, decentralization of decision making does. > Nobody else gets to concurrently > see the problems that exist at every level of the protocol stack. Plenty of people outside the IETF do, they are known as users, also ISPS, researchers etc. There are several issues such as security which do cut across the whole stack. I don't claim that every Internet problem is a security problem but most of the urgent ones are. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf