On Aug 13, 2014, at 12:08 AM, manning bill <bmanning@xxxxxxx> wrote: > the number of folks who are -required- to do cross-area review are generally paid to commit the time for IETF work. > so thats not a big issue. committed old-timers will do it anyway. I don't like flying to 3 ietfs a year. I wouldn't fly to nine. And committed old timers retire. If you break up the organization, where does the next generation of committed old-timers come from? And anyway, what makes you think it's the committed old-timers who are the ones who should be doing the cross-area reviews? Sometimes they are, but sometimes it's someone new to the organization who's needed for a particular review, and if the participants don't know each other, that person won't get tapped.