And my thanks, specifically to Pasi, Miguel(twice), Vijay and Joel, who as GenART reviewers, provided thorough reviews of documents I recently shepherded or co-authored, and followed up diligently after revised documents have been published and sent a "ready for publication" or "addresses all comments" emails. Thanks guys. (I picked the recent instances). best, Lakshminath On 3/8/2008 7:03 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: > Andrew Newton wrote: >> To Eric, Spencer, and all the other Gen-ART reviewers: Thank you. >> >> My experience with Gen-ART reviews has been very positive, and I >> appreciate your work and effort. I realize you weren't seeking public >> praise, but your volunteer contribution to the good of the IETF should >> be recognized. >> > > I have to say that I really like these and the cross area reviews a lot. As > an author/editor having to digest zillions of posts on the lists mixed with > time and entropy, it gets really hard to look at the draft with the > critical eye > of somebody who might have to actually try to make sense of it. Not to > mention trying to determine what the draft says versus the lore that's > built up around it. > > If I could make a suggestion, what might really be useful as well is > collecting > implementation notes, and especially what throws people off when coding > up the draft, or implements things in new and unintended ways. Unintended > can sometimes be very cool, but often it's that the draft isn't > sufficiently > precise. > > Mike, who tries to do this but given a cookie cutter form > might do better > >> On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Eric Gray wrote: >> >>> Minimally, as one of the people to whom that has happened, it would be >>> nice if at least an initial ("thanks for the review and comments") >>> mail >>> included the commenter, in every case. Even a "I wish you would stop >>> bothering us with all of these silly comments" would be a response. >>> Of course, I presonally would prefer that that sort of response was >>> not >>> addressed to the list, with or without me on it. :-) >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> IETF mailing list >> IETF@xxxxxxxx >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> > > _______________________________________________ > IETF mailing list > IETF@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf