Hi James, On Monday, 13 Sep 2004, James Kempf wrote: > There seems to be a built-in assumption here that someone will write a new > tool for this. > > Most conferences and journals nowadays use an automated submission system, > I've heard there are 4 different systems used by various conferences. One of > them I've used extensively is EDAS (http://edas.info/doc/) which was > developed by Henning Schulzrinne. I'd be curious to know why something like > that won't work for IETF? I imagine it might save IETF lots of time (and > potentially money if the intent was to contract out the production of the > tool), even if IETF had to change its procedures slightly. Has there been > any attempt to compare the requirements in this draft to existing systems to > see if IETF might get by with something that is already out there? Excellent point. There is no inherent value in rolling our own. If we can adapt an already existing system at a lower cost, it would most probably be better. We'll look at EDAS, and try to hunt down and look at the other three out there, too. (If you happen to have names or URLs for any of those, could you please send them to tools-discuss@xxxxxxxx?) Henrik _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf