"Adrian Farrel" <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > But note that the current version of the tracker does not raise the > DISCUSS with anyone. It simply logs it. I agree, and think this is an important observation. This lack of communication may cause friction. IESG members raise issues, which ends up the tracker, and for which they might not receive any response at all on. They may get the impression that the document author is inactive and not following up on problems raised (at least I would get that impression if I were preparing comments on others' document). The document author instead wonders why no comments or questions are generated by the IESG evaluation process. Having notification for these issues may avoid some of that friction, and would lead to better documents. I am inclined to agree with Harald that excessive notifications, for every DISCUSS/COMMENT may be annoying. On the other hand, for most WG's, sending a document to the IESG is an important step, and any feedback from that process should be important and valuable. Anyway, reducing the number of e-mails by waiting a week or two before compiling a message with all DISCUSS/COMMENTS seems like a good idea. Btw, I personally first discovered the I-D tracker when I was revising a document that had failed IETF last call before, and found COMMENT/DISCUSS for my earlier document, which I had not been aware of before. I believe taking care of those COMMENT/DISCUSS'es helped the document pass the second IETF last call. > But regardless of this, I am concerned that the resolution of a > DISCUSS is not archived anywhere. If you want to restrict the DISCUSS > from reaching the WG unless the WG chair decides, then you MUST log > the resolution (not just the fact of reslution) of each DISCUSS in the > I-D tracker. It would be good to log resolutions, yes. If for no other reasons, someone who reads the I-D tracker history for a document may wonder what the answer to a particular question was. /Simon _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf