> From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [mailto:jhutz@xxxxxxx] > On Friday, April 29, 2005 09:18:08 AM -0700 "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" > <pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > You miss out (3) TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THE TRACKER THAT EXISTS. > > > > There is actually a tracker: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi > > Which has been linked to from the internet-drafts page for > quite some time > now. It's also been mentioned in IETF plenaries and in > numerous other > forums. I certainly knew about it well before becoming a WG chair. The fact that others are proposing that the IETF build this type of tool is evidence that others have the same problem. Many people do not attend every IETF. There should also be a prominent link to the datatracker from each working group page. > If you mean "what is the standards status of RFCxxxx; what updates or > obsoletes it, etc", that information is in the rfc-index.txt > file, and has > been for as long as I can remember. Even knowing that the file exists it takes me a lot of time to find each time I need to refer to it. The IETF site is one of the few where I have learned to use google as the primary navigation tool. If the STD series is going to be useful then the tool that spits out the current status of the RFCs should spit out HTML pages with the RFCs indexed by status. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf