Subject: Transitioning the IETF web site and email services As you know the IETF is transitioning Secretariat services from NeuStar Secretariat Services to Association Management Solutions. This transition is scheduled to be completed on 31 January 2008 There are two services remaining to be transitioned, the web (including the FTP services and tools directories) and email (including all mailing lists). These are the two largest and most important services to the IETF. The purpose of this message is to explain what is going to happen over the next three weeks. There will be additional messages with announcements of details as the transition progresses. We will start the web transition next, then start and complete the email transition, and then finally finish the web transition on 31 January 2008. There are three kinds of web sites in the IETF. There are sites that are hosted and managed by third parties, for example datatracker.ietf.org. There will be no changes to these sites during this transition. They will remain 100% operational. There are a few smaller sites that are independent of the main www.ietf.org web sites, for example www.iab.com. We will move these sites early and as quickly as we can. They all have static pages so the process is pretty straightforward. The community will be notified about 24 hours in advance of each of these moves. Finally, there is the main www.ietf.org web site. For this site we will take several days to actually execute the transition and get the site setup at AMS. Then we will have about 10 days of testing during which members of the community will be invited to check out the new location. This testing is an essential part of the process. The IETF is dependent on its web site. We want the actual cut-over on the 31 January to be as seamless as possible. If you receive an invitation to be a tester we do hope you will seriously consider participating. This process will be documented and announced to the community. You will have time to prepare for each step in the process. Moving the email services is similar insofar as there are several smaller domains, such as iab.org, as well as the larger ietf.org domain. We will move these smaller domains as soon aswe get them setup. This will allow us to confirm the new email setup with relatively low volume. The community will be notifiedabout 24 hours in advance of each of these moves. The cut-over of the ietf.org domain will be documented and announced to the community. You will have time to prepare for this move. Of course the plan is for this transition to occur seamlessly and transparently. After each of the transitions is complete, we will ask for the community's assistance in verifying the material that you rely on and are familiar with. If you identify an issue we will want you to submit an action request to ietf-action@ietf.org. One final note of explanation. The transition of the main IETF web site will not be completely transparent. As I am sure you can understand, moving a site as large and complex as the IETF site is very difficult to do without some visible restrictions. There are two things the community will notice during this transition. First, once the transition starts, we will be putting a hold on almost all web sites updates. This hold will remain in place for about 2 weeks, until 31 January when the web site will be cut-over from NSS to AMS. During this hold period the site will be transitioned and thoroughly tested. This hold will *NOT* affect data driven web pages. Most of these are third party sites, for example, datatracker.ietf.org, and so are not affected regardless. The hold only applies to static web pages within the www.ietf.org web site and its various aliases. During the hold NSS will continue to log all requests for web site changes. You will receive a tracker ticket when you submit your request. However, NSS will keep tickets open and hand them over to AMS after the transition is complete on 31 January. We ask for your patience during the week following the cut-over while AMS catches up and processes all of the held requests. Urgency exception: if you have an urgent need for a web site change you should make that known in your request. We will handle those on a case-by-case basis. Second, on the day of the cut-over there will be some downtime for the IETF web site. We are going to ask for 4 hours of downtime although we fully expect to be operational much sooner than that, ideally within an hour. We will use this time to synchronize the databases used by the data driven web pages. NSS will turn off their web site, the databases will be synchronized (NSS will export and AMS will import), and then AMS will make the DNS changes necessary to make their web site the official IETF web site. That completes the description of what will be happening over the next three weeks. There will be additional messages over the coming weeks announcing specific steps and details in the process. Thanks. Ray Pelletier IETF Administrative Director _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
