People seem to be forgetting that all I-D submissions used to be
processed an a person. The automated tool is very new. When the I-D
were processed by hand, the cut-off was necessary for the Secretariat
to handle the spike of submissions just prior to the meeting. Look
at the statistics report by IETF chair in their plenary presentations
for the last few years -- the meetings cause a huge spike in I-D
submissions. Remember back when the I-D submissions were handled by
hand, it could be days after the submission that the document
actually appeared in the repository.
Now that we have the tool, it is a reasonable time to see if we still
need this cut-off rule. I have put the topic on the agenda for the
IESG discussions in Dublin.
I see this an opportunity for evolution and incremental improvement.
Russ
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