On 03/20/2013 08:51 PM, Martin Rex wrote:
IMHO, the IESG is not (and maybe never was?) a committee where_each_
member reviews_all_ of the work, where_each_ forms his very own opionion,
and where all of them caste a VOTE at the end, so that the diversity
within that committee would be vitally beneficial (to anything).
IESG is the review body of last resort. When WGs do a poor job of
review, especially cross-area review, the burden falls on IESG to take
up the slack. The idea that IESG shouldn't actually do review is naive
in the extreme, given the brokenness of IETF's structure.
Keith