on 2005-03-21 2:15 pm John C Klensin said the following: > Two observations, merely historical, rather than suggestions for > the present or future... > [...] >> And, having said this ... one significant difference between >> the IETF model and the IEEE model (as of two years ago, I >> haven't been attending recently) is that IEEE working groups >> usually rev documents once or twice while they are together >> face-to-face, one idea being to make sure that we are all on >> the same page while we can still have ANOTHER high-bandwidth >> exchange to resolve issues that came up with a new revision. >> >> Some working groups do this in spite of the ID blackout period >> (by posting URLs to working group mailing lists), but the ID >> blackout period does seem to say we're not terribly interested >> in making sure that we have "agreement in the room", before we >> try to achieve "consensus on the mailing list". > > The ancient historical origin of the posting deadlines was > simply the fact that the secretariat could not simultaneously > get I-Ds posted and operate a meeting. For some time, we had a > site, usually operated by volunteers on a rotating basis, to > which unedited updated drafts and other materials could be > posted immediately before and during the meeting only. The > greater amount of IETF activity (number of WGs and attendance) > and more hostile environment today would probably require more > procedures and/or human involvement today, but the intent was to > be make to get late updates and during-meeting updates, > available on an almost immediate basis. Perhaps we have lost > something by letting those mechanisms quietly atrophy. Speaking > personally, I certainly see no problem with the "post URL to WG > mailing list" or even "post document to WG web page" approaches, > although it would be nice to have repositories available for > those who don't have ready access to places where documents can > be posted during IETF meetings. The capability to upload new document revs (and sub-revs, when named with an added dot and letter - e.g., ...-03.a.txt) is provided by the prototype WG status and draft overview pages available under http://tools.ietf.org/wg/ ... Henrik > [...] _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf