Re: Revised idea for early cross-area review

[Jeffrey Haas <jhaas at nexthop.com>]

Brian,

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:32:09PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> The IESG is concerned to ensure that documents are reviewed for
> possible cross-area issues as early as possible, before they
> are in final IESG review. This is to avoid "late surprises"
> where serious cross-area problems are found after a WG has
> completed its work on a draft.

IMO, we could do a little better at helping interested observers
see that new documents may affect their working groups.  For example,
work in l2vpn and l3vpn occasionally affect or use BGP in interesting
ways.  Being able to see that the work in question affects BGP from
day one would let interested observers in IDR that don't follow either
of those WGs to track the document.

A keyword directory of some sort might be one tool by which this could
be done.  Examples would be the name of the WG and individual protocols.
Such keywords could show up in the ASCII announcements and could be
queryable in the online databases.

-- 
Jeff Haas 
NextHop Technologies