[TYPES] Two-tier reviewing process

[Alan Schmitt]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Derek Dreyer <dreyer at mpi-sws.org> wrote:
> It would be nice if program committees reliably gave more weight to
> those *thorough* reviews.  My impression is that sometimes they do and
> sometimes they don't, and especially when the only thorough review is
> an external review, the PC has a tendency to avoid abdicating their
> judgmental authority to some external reviewer who cannot engage in
> the PC discussion.  (The PC's behavior in such cases is
> understandable, and may in some cases be the right thing to do, but it
> nonetheless means that external reviews have second-class status.)  I
> view that as a real problem, and frankly I'm not sure what the right
> solution is.

This is a great argument for electronic (pre) meeting: invite the
external reviewer to participate in the discussion of the paper.

Alan