Hi Tom, The datatracker 'history' tab for a draft will indicate that a last-call was issued (including the last-call text). For example, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-external-psk-guidance/history/ shows that the last call was issued on 2021-10-29. The "publication requested" state means that the WG has sent a draft to the responsible AD for their review, and the AD is responsible for requesting the IETF last call after doing their own review. Also, now that we have RFC 8789, I think it's de facto required that all IETF-stream drafts do get a full IETF last call. -Ben On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 05:13:51PM +0000, tom petch wrote: > Is there any way to find out whether or not an IETF Last Call has been > issued for an I-D? > > I see Directorate reviews and think that I want to comment on the I-D, > go to the Datatracker and it tells me that 'Publication has been > requested' but when I search the e-mail archives, I see no sign of a > Last Call e-mail. There seems to be a state of limbo, after Publication > has been requested but before a Last Call is issued, which can go on for > months perhaps while the WG has further discussions about the I-D as the > result of a Directorate review. My wish is to wait until any such > issues are resolved and then comment but unless I am signed up to the WG > list, it would seem impossible. > > And then of course not all I-D get an IETF Last Call so I would be > hovering, pen in hand, for evermore! > > Tom Petch >
