It seems the cutoff is more often a driver to get updates written, and 00 drafts kicked off. One alternative is to review other means to encourage timely and regular draft updates? This might help distribute the load through the year rather than into three hectic chokepoints. Tim On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:03:16AM -0800, Joe Touch wrote: > Hi, all, > > With agendas appearing ever later - including last night, the issue of > cutoff dates should be revisited. > > If reading the drafts to be discussed is NOT an issue, then the I-D > cutoff dates should be dropped. > > If reading the drafts IS an issue, then, by correlary, there should be a > corresponding cutoff date for agendas - e.g., 1 week after the last > cutoff I-D date. Jjust as I-Ds that pass the cutoffs are not published > for this IETF, WGs that fail to meet that deadline should be CANCELLED. > > Consider this a proposal, or at least a request. > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- Tim _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf