Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

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On 05/17/2013 10:18 AM, Yoav Nir wrote:
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> On May 16, 2013, at 11:55 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>
>> I think Dave's idea is worth looking at, but have one comment:
>>
>> On 05/16/2013 09:46 PM, Yoav Nir wrote:
>>> There is a problem, though, that this will increase the load on ADs.
>>
>> There is that. But don't forget that ADs mostly read everything
>> in IESG review and often comment. Even leaving aside DISCUSSes,
>> if every IETF LC draft got a bunch of AD review comments, then
>> the IETF LC would be much busier than now. And its in the nature
>> of IETFers to chime in. So this would I suspect increase everyone's
>> load, if it works, and not just ADs.
> 
> More community participation at IETF last call is a good thing. 
> 
> The problem with AD's time is that they will need to review at IETF last call, and then may need to review again after some changes have been made (including changes not related to their own issue). That's where the increased AD load comes from.

I'm not so sure that's a problem. The additional time I think
(for me) would be in reading the 100's of ietf-discuss mails
that'd get triggered by my or some other AD's comments. Not
all comments would trigger that of course, but if you look at
the minutes for any IESG telechat [1] and imagine that all
those comments had been sent to ietf-discuss during IETF LC
then you might worry about what'd happen on this list.

I'm not against considering this idea at all, but we should
bear in mind that any random thread on this list has a non-zero
probability of turning into major amounts of traffic. Most of
that traffic would doubtless be excellent IETF LC stuff, but
we maybe need to be careful in what we wish for too.

Cheers,
S.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/iesg/minutes/2013/index.html

> Yoav
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