Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I happened to choose the particular example of Discuss simply because it is of immediate concern to me, but my point was intended, of course, to be more general. That's why your raising the 'cost' issue for the current discussion came as such a confusing surprise. Sorry to confuse: let me

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-20 Thread Dave Crocker
Brian E Carpenter wrote: I happened to choose the particular example of Discuss simply because it is of immediate concern to me, but my point was intended, of course, to be more general. That's why your raising the 'cost' issue for the current discussion came as such a confusing surprise.

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-20 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, December 20, 2006 07:19:10 AM -0800 Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we rely on volunteers for a number of IETF activities, beyond writing specs, it is at least worth exploring this additional avenue of saving money (and maybe even getting better operations,

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: ... So my suggestions are: 1. Move these Status pages out of the tools development area and make them an official part of a working group's official pages. That isn't simply a matter of wishing it to be so. It actually involves work (to make the tools that generate these

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-19 Thread Dave Crocker
Brian E Carpenter wrote: 1. Move these Status pages out of the tools development area and make them an official part of a working group's official pages. That isn't simply a matter of wishing it to be so. It actually involves work (to make the tools that generate these pages ready to hand

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-19 Thread Dave Crocker
But, Brian, the concern for costs ought to extend much farther, such as to the kinds of issues raised by an IESG Discuss so that the AD provides an explanation of the benefit that justifies the considerable cost in delay and wg effort they are imposing... Hence the DISCUSS criteria

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-19 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
Hi Dave, Brian, Regarding one point regarding the WG status pages on the tools servers: on 2006-12-19 15:51 Dave Crocker said the following: [...] 3. Remove the documents list from the WG charter page, since it is redundant with the Status page and less complete. However, it contains

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-18 Thread Jari Arkko
Dave, Given that the Tools folk have created yet-another useful mechanism, making each working group's page have a link to its related status information now becomes a trivial effort, with substantial benefit. This would be useful. (FWIW, I've already moved to using only the tools page -- you

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-18 Thread Frank Ellermann
Dave Crocker wrote: minor enhancement: Put a link to that page on the working group's main IETF page. There's a link to the Charter, isn't that the old main page ? A working group's main page really is its home page and, therefore, ought to bring together references to all relevant

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Thomas
Dave Crocker wrote: Bill Fenner wrote: Mike, Check out http://tools.ietf.org/wg/wgname and see if that gives you the view you're looking for. Bill, thanks. I suspect that's what Michael has in mind, except for one minor enhancement: Put a link to that page on the working group's main

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-18 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
Hi Dave, Frank, on 2006-12-18 17:20 Frank Ellermann said the following: Dave Crocker wrote: minor enhancement: Put a link to that page on the working group's main IETF page. Good idea. And actually already implemented some time ago. Looking at for instance the mip4 charter page, at

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Crocker
Michael Thomas wrote: Given that the Tools folk have created yet-another useful mechanism, making each working group's page have a link to its related status information now becomes a trivial effort, with substantial benefit. Right, this is really cool -- although a link from the ietf wg page

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-17 Thread Bill Fenner
Mike, Check out http://tools.ietf.org/wg/wgname and see if that gives you the view you're looking for. Bill ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-17 Thread Dave Crocker
Bill Fenner wrote: Mike, Check out http://tools.ietf.org/wg/wgname and see if that gives you the view you're looking for. Bill, thanks. I suspect that's what Michael has in mind, except for one minor enhancement: Put a link to that page on the working group's main IETF page. A working

draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-14 Thread Michael Thomas
First I have to say that I really like the draft tracker, and kudos for those responsible for making it happen. In fact, I like it so much that it seems to me that it would be nice to have a link directly to it from the working group page with its list of drafts. Ie: draft-foowg-bardraft-00.txt