> Date: 2005-07-14 03:30 > From: Brian E Carpenter <brc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > What's the Parking Area? It's the list of all drafts that have been > approved by the IESG but are not yet published as RFCs. > > You can find the test version at > > http://rtg.ietf.org:8080/Test/parking [...] > Date: 2005-07-15 10:12 > From: Bill Fenner <fenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Yes. And what's the idea ? > > It's the IETF's statement about having approved the documents, as opposed > to the RFC Editor's statement about having the documents in the queue. Yes, but what's the intended use? I'd like to see the date of the status changes; e.g. I see several listed in AUTH48 that are dated 2003. But I cannot tell from the "Parking Area" or from the I-D tracker or from the RFC-Editor Queue web page how long those documents have been sitting in AUTH48. There have been comments that it takes a long time for some documents to work their way through the RFC-Editor queue, and that is certainly true. If the intended use of the data includes either a proposal to change process or finger-pointing, we don't have enough information. It would be nice to have something analogous to the I-D tracker for the RFC-Editor process, recording process state transitions and their dates. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf