--On Friday, October 18, 2013 08:50 +1300 Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 18/10/2013 08:26, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: > ... >> some ideas to decrease the work load >> 1) Limit on working groups in each area >> 2) Less review of documents our outsource reviews >> 3) Lower the voting threshold for document to pass > > It's already pretty low, considering that one valid meaning > of 'No objection' is 'I trust the sponsoring AD'. That > option should perhaps be used more often. Not if we think that careful, competent, cross-area review is important. If we were ever to decide that we didn't, there are a whole lot of ways to reduce the workload, starting with eliminating IETF Last Call and the need to read all of those often-noisy and repetitious messages. john