Document Review: Volunteers Needed

[Margaret Wasserman <mrw@windriver.com>]

Hi All,

The recent poor response to our document last calls (2
comments for one document, 4 comments for the other) is
insufficient to justify advancing these documents to the
IESG.

Before we advance these document, or any documents, to the
IESG, we want to be certain that they have been reviewed by
a significant number of people representing a cross-section
of areas of expertise.

In an effort to fix this problem, Bob, Itojun and I are
considering forming a semi-official v6ops document review team.

This team would consist of people who are willing to spend a
couple of hours reviewing and commenting on v6ops documents at
each stage of the process -- WG acceptance, major intermediate
revisions, WG last call(s), revisions to address IESG comments,
etc.

The review team would be chosen from a pool of volunteers to
represent a broad range of knowledge and expertise, and members
would be removed if they are too frequently non-responsive.  All
review comments would be sent to the list, and treated like any
individual comments.

Like most new processes, we don't know exactly how this
would work, and there will probably be bugs to work out
over time...  But, we strongly feel that we have to do
something to ensure that our documents are well reviewed
before they are accepted by the WG and/or advanced to the
IESG.  We also hope that our efforts may serve as a useful
model for improvements in this area throughout the IETF.

What does the WG think about this idea?

If you think that this is a good idea, how could we give
credit to this team?  Perhaps list them on the v6ops
alternate web-site, and list them as "technical reviewers"
in the acknowledgements section of our published
documents?

Who would be willing to volunteer for this type of role?

Thanks,
Margaret