Re: Ietf Digest, Vol 39, Issue 13

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Maurice Zenarosa
Technology Department
Lynwood Unified School District


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>   1. Re: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule
>      (Spencer Dawkins)
>   2. Re: Drafts Submissions cut-off (SM)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:10:52 -0500
>From: "Spencer Dawkins" <spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxx>, "John C Klensin"
>	<john@xxxxxxx>
>Cc: IETF <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule
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>Peter,
>
>> A side benefit is that the IESG/IAB could have a lunch meeting on Friday
>> (as opposed to the current breakfast meeting) and cover all the hot
>> topics from the week (not the week minus Friday).
>>
>> /psa
>
>I agree with your point here, and add that the joint IAB/IESG Friday session 
>isn't only a BOF report session, it's "hot spots, however defined" - we've 
>usually at least SEEN all the BOFs by Friday breakfast, but that doesn't 
>mean we've seen all the hot spots ;-)
>
>Spencer 
>
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:46:49 -0700
>From: SM <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@xxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: IETF Discussion Mailing List <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Drafts Submissions cut-off
>Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20110801172353.0696f868@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>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
>
>1. msg-id: 48821469.4050907@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>2. msg-id: 01MXC0962CLI00007A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>3. msg-id: 20080719191556.567F03A6A32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>4. msg-id: 2E1B2AB9703690B8E1EEBE90@xxxxxxxxxx
>5. msg-id: 48826DC0.8000307@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>6. msg-id: 013501c8ea6a$271e28a0$6501a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>7. msg-id: p06250100c4a9226eac87@[75.145.176.242] 
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