Hi. The current cutoff schedule for Internet Drafts dates from my time on the IESG (i.e., is ancient history). It was conditioned on the pre-IETF rush and the observation that the Secretariat, at the time, required a sufficiently long time to get drafts posted in the pre-meeting rush that, unless there was a two-week cutoff, we couldn't reliably have all expected documents in hand prior to the start of the meetings. Splitting the "new" and "revised" drafts was a further attempt to compensate when the load built up enough that the choices were between such a split and moving the submission deadline for _all_ I-Ds back even further. The conclusion was that a split was desirable because a three-week cutoff for revisions would seriously interfere with WGs getting work done in the run-up to IETF meetings. With the automated posting tools typically getting I-Ds posted in well under an hour and a tiny fraction of the documents being handled manually, the original reasons for the submission cutoffs no longer apply. It is still reasonable, IMO, to have a cutoff early enough to permit people to receive and read documents before departing for the meetings, but it seems to me that criterion would require a cutoff a week (or even less) prior to the meeting, not two or three weeks. Other models about giving people time to read might suggest leaving the "new document" cutoff at three weeks before the meeting, but seeing if we could move the "revision" cutoff considerably closer to the meetings. I don't necessarily object to retaining the current two and three week posting deadlines, but I'd like to know that the IESG has done a careful review of those deadlines and their applicability to the current environment and concluded that they are still appropriate, rather than having the secretariat retain them simply on tradition and autopilot. thanks, john _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf