> On 5 Nov 2019, at 18:59, Salz, Rich <rsalz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I wouldn't think that adding people would help much since a lot of the > work isn't divisible. ADs traditionally read all of the drafts, not > just the ones in their area. > > Does every AD read all the drafts? That depends. I tried to read every draft. I mostly succeeded. > I don't know. But changing the process to say one AD from each area would reduce the load. That was tried. It did not entirely work. > >> The number of communication paths grows as the square of > the number of people. > > Second time this has been mentioned. There's a huge difference between information-theory and practice. > >> The way to have less work is to publish fewer RFCs, or perhaps shorter > RFCs. > > That is certainly *A* way, but not *THE* way. Then people would look to take their work elsewhere which has other undesirable outcomes. - Stewart
