Fostering reviews (was Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?)

[marcelo bagnulo braun <marcelo at it.uc3m.es>]

Hi Iljitsch,


> I don't know about "narrow community", but I agree that good reviews 
> are essential. Reviewing is hard, especially with long documents / 
> complex specifications (unfortunately it still seems some RFC writers 
> are paid by the word) and also when there are many dependencies. And 
> there's essentially nothing in it for the reviewer, so only people who 
> are very much in favor or very much against something bother, with the 
> former probably not being in the best position to uncover hidden 
> problems.
>
> In my opinion, if the IETF could make it worth someone's while in one 
> way or another to do a thorough review, that would help a lot.


I very much agree with this

I think this is the way to improve quality
there have been some initiatives for this, see 
http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-handley-doc-market-00.txt but 
i guess it didn't progress...

we should try to figure out some mechanisms to foster reviews... do you 
have any ideas?

Regards, marcelo



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