Tim Starling wrote:
The first and most important measure to improve the speed of the AC is to reduce the necessary quorum to three members. Decisions are made by a simple majority. Any member of the arbitration committee may request a review of such decisions by the full committee.
The second is that deliberation should be conducted by IRC, not email. Cases will still be accepted on the wiki, and findings will still be announced on the wiki. But deliberations will be performed by any and all AC members present in #arbcom.wikipedia, as long as there is more than three of them.
I agree that the first is a useful change, since getting the full committee together in a timely manner with peoples' schedules seems like it will remain nearly impossible no matter what combination of people are on it. I'm not sure the second one is necessary though: The primary problem right now is that there are few arbitrators with lots of free time, and few non-arbitrators with lots of free time who have expressed an interest in becoming arbitrators. If we had at least a few arbitrators with a lot of free time, I'm not sure email would be insufficient, and if we don't have arbitrators with free time, nobody will use IRC any more than they use email.
-Mark