Fred Baker posted the following note to v6ops, and other versions may be
floating around other mailing lists, but I wanted to follow up to a wider
distribution.
- The IETF tools site IS continuing to add really cool functionality (as
detailed by Bert/Fred below), but I haven't seen anything broadly
distributed about one of the most helpful additions.
- If you go to http://tools.ietf.org/wg/ and select a specific working
group, you get the working group drafts that you can get from other places,
but you ALSO get "Related Documents", which is basically any non-working
group Internet Drafts that have "-(working group name)-" as a component in
the filename.
- So, if you select http://tools.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/, you don't just get the
WG drafts, you also get a list of documents with titles like
draft-baker-v6ops-end2end-00.txt - not a working group draft, but "of
interest".
- This makes scraping all of the drafts that will be discussed in a
face-to-face meeting a LOT easier than cut-and-pasting draft names from a
text agenda (of course, the tools page also provides HTML-ized agendas, if
the text agendas included actual draft names - see
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/agenda for an example).
- The definition of "related" means "includes -(working group name)- in the
filename", so if Fred had named his draft
draft-baker-hamster-end2end-00.txt, it would not have appeared as a "related
document", unless we end up with a working group called hamster ("Host-Agile
Multihomed Streaming Terrabit Error Reporting" would be an awesome BoF name,
though).
- So, there's a real incentive to include working group names in your draft
filename, if the draft actually targets a specific working group...
Thanks again to the Tools Group, for continuing to hack away at stuff like
this.
Spencer
From: "Fred Baker" <fred@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <v6ops@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:58 PM
Subject: IETF Tools
Forwarded from Bert Wijnen, with some slight hacking for relevance...
Goto http://tools.ietf.org
If you want to see nits or diffs for any I-D in your WG, you can find
them on the IETF Tools Page too!
If you go to WG status pages, you get to:
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/
From there you can go to your (or any) WG.
See for example:
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/
You can click on dependencies and get to:
http://rtg.ietf.org/~fenner/ietf/deps/viz/v6ops.pdf
Of you can click on document draft-ietf-v6ops-bb-deployment-scenarios and
you get to:
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/draft-ietf-v6ops-bb-deployment-
scenarios/
from there you can see the file itself, any nits (ID-checklist) that were
found, the diff bnetween all the versions etc.
Very usefull information for authors, WG chairs, WG reviewers actually
for everyone!
Not sure everyone is really aware of it.
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