Hi Peter, At 11:45 16-10-2009, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
And of course if you have suggestions for ways to improve the apps-review team (e.g., a template for reviews, a page for tracking review assignments, etc.), please do send them along.
The reviews are described as "semi-formal reviews of Internet-Drafts as a way to improve the quality of IETF specifications". The current procedure is for the author to request a review. The target audience is ill-defined. Authors who are not familiar with the IETF may not be aware of apps-discuss.
I suggest doing the reviews to help the Apps AD. That narrows down the target audience and makes the review informational instead of "authors must change their proposal as this review says so". In addition to review requests, it might be good to identify drafts that have an impact on the Apps Area. That could be done as a second stage if the team has the energy to do the work.
The subject of the email when submitting the review could be "apps-team review of draft-name". The email could be copied to document authors, the WG chairs (if applicable), the Document Shepherd, the apps-discuss mailing list and the apps-review mailing list.
It would be good if the review is not a substitute for reviews from outside the Apps Area team. If I have read the different iterations of an I-D, I might not notice some mistakes. I probably won't pick an I-D in here if I commented on it previously.
The above is more of a "think about it" and not a review. Regards,S. Moonesamy