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Re: comments on mib review guidelines 01 - draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-XX-20030707.txt

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:35:20PM -0700, Randy Presuhn wrote:
> >
> > That I could live with ... but the following part of the intro
> >
> >  [ ... ] the IESG instituted a policy of requiring OPS area review
> >  of IETF standards-track specifications containing MIB modules.
> >
> > should stay as is, since it accurately reports the facts (and
> > similarly for the abstract, if my proposal above is accepted).
> > The specific changes would be:
> >
> > s/current pool of OPS Area MIB reviewers/current pool of MIB reviewers/
> >
> > in Section 4.2 and in Section 4.8.
> >
> > Will these changes, along with the revised abstract I proposed
> > above, be satisfactory to everyone?
> ...
> 
> I think the point is that it's not a question of *who* is doing the review,
> but rather one of *on whose behalf* the review is being done, so I
> think this is going in the right direction.

My understanding is the the policy is an IESG policy so a review is 
done for the IESG. The OPS ADs (or in current reality one of them) is
organizing these reviews for the IESG. Hence, I believe that saying

  [ ... ] the IESG instituted a policy of requiring MIB review
  of IETF standards-track specifications containing MIB modules.

is just right and if you want to highlight that the OPS ADs are
responsible to organize this, then say so explicitely:

  [ ... ] the IESG instituted a policy of requiring MIB review
  of IETF standards-track specifications containing MIB modules.
  These MIB reviews are currently organized by the OPS area 
  directors.

[OK, one can now discuss whether this is both or only one. In general,
 I think this document should be silent how the IESG organizes its
 work since it is really irrelevant for MIB authors and reviews to
 do a good job.]

Summary: I still think the phrase "OPS area review" is unclear and
potentially confusing and I would like to see it go away.

/js

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