This is a request for a review of a Statement of Work from the IAOC Tools Committee. Please take a look at the document and provide the committee feedback. Jari Arkko ---- The IAOC Tools Committee has developed a Statement of Work (SoW) for an enhancement to the IETF Datatracker to assist in requests for manual Internet-Draft posting. We are asking for review by the IETF community before seeking a vendor to write the software to implement the new Datatracker features described in the document. The transparency of the I-D submission process needs to be improved, particularly for those submissions that are handled directly by the IETF Secretariat. These are referred to as "manual" and "forced" I-D submissions. When an author uses the IETF Datatracker I-D submission tool, some information is captures about the event, including when the I-D was submitted, when it was approved, and who made the submission. Currently, the document history shows only that a new version is available. The I-D submission tool presents an option for authors to request the IETF Secretariat finish the submission process. When this option is exercised, the Datatracker captures the candidate document and then sends email to the Secretariat. Often the request is made because the I-D submission tool was unable to extract correct meta-data from the document. In this case, the Secretariat populates the meta-data, and then forces the post. Currently, normal submission event information is not collected when the Secretariat forces the post; this effort will allow it to be collected. The Secretariat also receives email requests to post an I-D, bypassing the I-D submission tool altogether. Currently, the Secretariat receives about 10 such requests each meeting cycle. When this happens, the Secretariat operates the I-D submission tool on behalf of the author, and as a result, the submission event information does not reflect that a manual I-D submission request was processed ob behalf of the author. This effort will allow accurate submission event information to be collected for manual I-D submission. The Secretariat currently relies on a combination of RT and personal email archives to keep track of the outstanding manual I-D submission requests. This effort will provide proper workflow tracking of these requests. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sparks-genarea-manualpost-tracking-00.txt/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The IAOC plans to solicit bids for the development of these new features in the next few weeks, and solicits comments on this SoW. Please send comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by November 10, 2015. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iaoc@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Thank you, Russ Housley Chair of the IAOC Tools Committee
