On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Lachlan Andrew <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 10 November 2011 21:48, Pars Mutaf <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Lachlan Andrew < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > >> As an aside, this is a good example of the benefit of peer review over > >> the "open review" that is being discussed on another thread. It is > >> more efficient to have three reviewers point out this flaw (if it is > >> one) than have all readers of the TCCC list spend time reading the > >> technical report. > > > > I guess I have to reply: > > > > I don't understand. The author got a feedback without waiting 3-6 > > months. Why peer review is better? Why compare the two when you > > can have both? > > Ture, the authors got fast feedback. However, the system is less > efficient. > > Notice that, in my rush to save others from reading a clearly flawed > paper, I mis-identified the flaw, which further increases the noise. > In a proper review process, I would have waited until I was certain > (since there wouldn't be hundreds of other people possibly reading the > same paper) and clearly pointed out what the problem is. > Yes this the advantage of public discussion. If you don't notice the error in your comment someone else can. > The authors got fast feedback in this case because they used the "high > priority" QoS class (send to everyone instead of three people). If > everyone uses the high priority class, then nobody gets good service. > If you want to "crowd source" reviewing, take a look at www.scholarpedia.org > . > > Yes this is another approach. Cheers, Pars > Cheers, > Lachlan > > -- > Lachlan Andrew Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA) > Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia > <http://caia.swin.edu.au/cv/landrew> > Ph +61 3 9214 4837 > _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
