Re: Re-revised idea for early cross-area review

[Jeffrey Haas <jhaas at nexthop.com>]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:28:20AM -0800, Andy Bierman wrote:
> I reviewed MIBs at Cisco for 10 years, and my experience is
> that early review is very expensive.  It takes a lot of extra time and 
> effort
> for both the authors and the reviewers, because the document
> under review is not stable yet.

There are multiple levels of reviews that can be done on a document.

A final review during (first) last call makes sense.  It catches technical
details and walks through the specification with a (hopefully) fresh
set of eyes.

A level of "review" that I think we could all benefit is simply someone
watching the evolution of a document of interest earlier in the process.
The goal would be to prevent issues that may be problematic early
on from becoming (by analogy) wet concrete that is difficult to reshape.

My favorite example of this is something that is deployed and is
highly resistant to change in spite of what comments might follow
from last call review.

-- 
Jeff Haas 
NextHop Technologies