Re: Revised idea for early cross-area review

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>]

In message <436A6276.8050704 at zurich.ibm.com>, Brian E Carpenter writes:
>Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> In message <436A1F69.80105 at zurich.ibm.com>, Brian E Carpenter writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>- the WG chair(s) will also specifically solicit reviews from one or two
>>>  members of the early-reviews list, at their discretion. They will specify
>>>  particular areas of concern if appropriate. (It's worth noting the obvious
>:
>>>  the absence of early reviews doesn't imply that there are no cross-area
>>>  issues.)
>> 
>> 
>> This provision concerns me a great deal -- there's no load-leveling or 
>> load-limiting.  When I'm asked to review documents as part of my role 
>> in the security directorate, I know that the ADs are spreading the load.
>> Here, any individual WG chair is unaware of what his or her colleagues 
>> are doing.
>
>Right. For Gen-ART, we have a human dispatcher who performs
>loose load balancing. Do you think we will need a human (or robotic)
>dispatcher for this?
>
I suspect it should be the AD who "owns" that directorate.  (Russ and I 
kept track of to whom we assigned which documents -- and how long it 
took to get an answer....)


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb