Thanks a lot for the effort. I like it very much and I think it is exactly the right way to open up the IESG process. I think and hope it will prevent bad feelings about decisions and suspicion of extenal influence. Marcus --On Montag, 4. November 2002 16:44 -0500 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote: > > Hello, > > The IESG is always trying to work better. > We have gotten a number of comments from the community that it is > sometimes very hard to find out what the IESG is doing to documents, why > documents take a long time to process, who makes comments, what the > comments are and so on, and that this is a significant source of > frustration for the community. > > For the last year or so, the secretariat has been working on a tool to > help us keep track of what documents are on our plate, what state they > are in and who is responsible for them; we call it the "ID tracker". > It's been in use for about 6 months now, and has definitely improved our > ability to keep track. > > For several months, the "status of items" pages on the IESG web pages > have been generated from this tool, showing the high-order bit of who we > think is responsible. > > In order to help you know more about what we are doing, we've decided to > open up a public view of the ID tracker itself. > > This will allow you to search for the documents you want to look at, and > for each document see: > > - What its current state is > - What the history of IESG processing is > - AD and IESG comments on the document > - For documents in IESG consideration for standards track, what the > individual ADs have indicated as their opinion on the document, and if > they think there are problems with it, what the comments are. > > The last point is a revision of previous IESG policy, based on the > feedback from the Yokohama plenary; we are now telling you the names > that go with each comment from the IESG members. > > The system is far from perfect - you can tell from the history of > documents that we've been changing this as we go along - but we hope > that it will be a useful tool for people to figure out what the IESG is > doing with their documents, and for them to have an easier time talking > to the relevant ADs in order to get what we all want out of the process > - relevant, high quality standards for the Internet. > > The tool and its documentation is found at > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi > > The link to it is also visible on the IESG Web page. > > Welcome! > > The IESG > -------------------------------------- Marcus Brunner Network Laboratories NEC Europe Ltd. E-Mail: brunner@ccrle.nec.de WWW: http://www.ccrle.nec.de/ Phone: +49 (0) 6221 905 11 29 personal home page: http://www.brubers.org/marcus