Hi Phillip,
At 11:31 AM 8/1/2011, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
Over the weekend I attempted to determine the rules for discussion
of drafts at IETF meetings and was surprised to discover that they
are not actually written down anywhere (other than on the meetings
page). As a result we appear to have an anomalous situation in which
an author who misses the cut-off date for ID submissions is in fact
entitled to sit on the draft for two weeks and then submit when the
ID queue re-opens.
I suggest that this is a sub-optimal state of affairs. I see two solutions:
1) Codify the requirement that materials to be discussed at the
meeting must be submitted before the cut-off and that submissions
made during meetings are strictly limited to revisions occurring
after and between WG sessions. [Except in exceptional circumstances
with AD approval]
2) Eliminate the 2 week cut off completely.
I'll start by quoting Scott Brim [1]:
"One generation's rule of thumb becomes the next generation's dogma.
The IETF should sit up and really think when someone suggests that
a process has become dogma."
Quoting Ned [2]:
"I'd much rather breach the sanctity of the rules by getting rid of
some of them entirely."
Quoting Russ [3]:
"When all of the Internet-Drafts were processed by Secretariat staff,
there was a huge workload concern. Now that the Internet-Draft
Submission Tool (IDST) is taking the bulk of the load, there are
resources to deal with these exceptions, as was just demonstrated."
Which was in response to John Klensin who said [4]:
"The original reason for those cutoffs -- even more important
than giving people time to read drafts -- was that the
submissions were overwhelming the Secretariat. Not only did
they have other things to do in the weeks before the meeting, it
was becoming unpredictable whether a draft submitted in advance
of the meeting would be posted early enough for the relevant WG
to look at it. The split between "new" and "revised" drafts was
another attempt to protect the Secretariat -- notions of having
to formally approve WG drafts came later."
And Dave said [5]:
"It would seem that the right thing is to remove the cutoff and let
each working group decide on what drafts will be worked on."
Spencer Dawkins [6] quoted Section 7.1 of RFC 2418.
Pete Resnick was of the opinion [7] that:
"The cutoff is an arbitrary procedure to try (poorly IMO) to enforce
the 2418 rule."
I suggest that WG chairs stop asking the working group whether they
have read the draft as it is silly. It is an impossible task to keep
up with the flood of I-D that are submitted on Meeting Monday.
Regards,
-sm
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