At 15:52 17-10-2013, John C Klensin wrote:
I had promised I was through for today, but I just had a wild,
crazy, suggestion that follows on the retirement of the xx99 and
xx00 subseries of RFCs.
I missed the above the first time I read the message. Fortunately, I
read the message again and I noticed "wild, crazy". :-)
RFC authors get credit in the IETF system. Reviewers don't get much
credit in the IETF system even though the system would not work
without reviewers. The American Physical Society has an Outstanding
Referee program to express its appreciation to reviewers. The
reviewers are selected based on the quality, number, and timeliness
of their reviews.
There was a comment from Loa Andersson: the public has a "right to
know" who reviewed a document. There are times when I wondered who
let a draft through as I was not comfortable asking a person to
review a draft if there hasn't been any effort to review it
previously. Some of that information may be available in the
datatracker but it is freeform text. Some changes would have to be
done for the document shepherd to be able to add who reviewed a draft
and a link to where the review was posted.
It may be possible to use the data (see previous paragraph) to
identify outstanding reviewers by area. The IETF can express its
appreciation by publishing a yearly list or an xx99 list (see comment
from John Klensin).
Regards,
-sm