Maurice Zenarosa Technology Department Lynwood Unified School District
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Re: Drafts Submissions cut-off (SM) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:10:52 -0500 >From: "Spencer Dawkins" <[email protected]> >To: "Peter Saint-Andre" <[email protected]>, "John C Klensin" > <[email protected]> >Cc: IETF <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > >Peter, > >> A side benefit is that the IESG/IAB could have a lunch meeting on Friday >> (as opposed to the current breakfast meeting) and cover all the hot >> topics from the week (not the week minus Friday). >> >> /psa > >I agree with your point here, and add that the joint IAB/IESG Friday session >isn't only a BOF report session, it's "hot spots, however defined" - we've >usually at least SEEN all the BOFs by Friday breakfast, but that doesn't >mean we've seen all the hot spots ;-) > >Spencer > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:46:49 -0700 >From: SM <[email protected]> >To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <[email protected]> >Cc: IETF Discussion Mailing List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Drafts Submissions cut-off >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > >Hi Phillip, >At 11:31 AM 8/1/2011, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: >>Over the weekend I attempted to determine the rules for discussion >>of drafts at IETF meetings and was surprised to discover that they >>are not actually written down anywhere (other than on the meetings >>page). As a result we appear to have an anomalous situation in which >>an author who misses the cut-off date for ID submissions is in fact >>entitled to sit on the draft for two weeks and then submit when the >>ID queue re-opens. >> >>I suggest that this is a sub-optimal state of affairs. I see two solutions: >> >>1) Codify the requirement that materials to be discussed at the >>meeting must be submitted before the cut-off and that submissions >>made during meetings are strictly limited to revisions occurring >>after and between WG sessions. [Except in exceptional circumstances >>with AD approval] >> >>2) Eliminate the 2 week cut off completely. > >I'll start by quoting Scott Brim [1]: > > "One generation's rule of thumb becomes the next generation's dogma. > The IETF should sit up and really think when someone suggests that > a process has become dogma." > >Quoting Ned [2]: > > "I'd much rather breach the sanctity of the rules by getting rid of > some of them entirely." > >Quoting Russ [3]: > > "When all of the Internet-Drafts were processed by Secretariat staff, > there was a huge workload concern. Now that the Internet-Draft > Submission Tool (IDST) is taking the bulk of the load, there are > resources to deal with these exceptions, as was just demonstrated." > >Which was in response to John Klensin who said [4]: > > "The original reason for those cutoffs -- even more important > than giving people time to read drafts -- was that the > submissions were overwhelming the Secretariat. Not only did > they have other things to do in the weeks before the meeting, it > was becoming unpredictable whether a draft submitted in advance > of the meeting would be posted early enough for the relevant WG > to look at it. The split between "new" and "revised" drafts was > another attempt to protect the Secretariat -- notions of having > to formally approve WG drafts came later." > >And Dave said [5]: > > "It would seem that the right thing is to remove the cutoff and let > each working group decide on what drafts will be worked on." > >Spencer Dawkins [6] quoted Section 7.1 of RFC 2418. > >Pete Resnick was of the opinion [7] that: > > "The cutoff is an arbitrary procedure to try (poorly IMO) to enforce > the 2418 rule." > >I suggest that WG chairs stop asking the working group whether they >have read the draft as it is silly. It is an impossible task to keep >up with the flood of I-D that are submitted on Meeting Monday. > >Regards, >-sm > >1. msg-id: [email protected] >2. msg-id: [email protected] >3. msg-id: [email protected] >4. msg-id: [email protected] >5. msg-id: [email protected] >6. msg-id: [email protected] >7. msg-id: p06250100c4a9226eac87@[75.145.176.242] > > > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Ietf mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > >End of Ietf Digest, Vol 39, Issue 13 >************************************ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
