Re: Review panel's role

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(note is long - summary: Review panel SHOULD, in my opinion, be able to send back documents to WG without it being a Big Deal. At least once.)

--On 4. august 2005 09:08 -0400 Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think it would be useful to analyze the nature of current DISCUSS
comments before drawing conclusions from the 70% figure. They apparently
range from simple typos ("expand acronyms") to differences of opinion
("WG chose X, AD prefers Y; both X and Y are at least plausible") to
adding various disclaimers to fundamental design problems ("broken").

I don't know if Bill's database extract contains the actual DISCUSS text, but the analysis would at least be interesting.

The category I remember seeing most often was "you have not explained how this works" - this might be because it was not written clearly enough, because there were states/events that the WG/author had not described, because the explanation was in other documents not available to reviewers, or because the WG had chosen to ignore that particular issue in the document - sometimes because the WG had failed to get consensus on it, and preferred to paper over the issue by not mentioning it.

In at least one case I remember, my DISCUSS saying "I don't see how this works" resulted in a technical change in the document; the WG effectively said "No, we don't see how this can work either - we'd better decide".

I don't remember many recent DISCUSSes based on a fundamental design issue; the perception that protocols with fundamental design problems (like "broken security") would not pass the IESG might be a reason for the lack of such DISCUSSes - putting the quality input where it should be (in the WG), but enforced by a strong end-game filter function (in the IESG).
And that's a Good Thing.

But - I don't remember all DISCUSS texts.....

                        Harald




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