-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 02/26/2013 11:39 AM, Joe Touch wrote: > On 2/26/2013 11:23 AM, joel jaeggli wrote: >> On 2/26/13 11:12 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote: >>> On Feb 26, 2013, at 8:01 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: >>> >>>>> From: James Polk <jmpolk@xxxxxxxxx> >>>>> >>>>> Personally, I'd trust "date -u" much sooner than any random >>>>> person. Even better: >>>>> >>>>> $ date --date='00:00 Feb 26, 2013 UTC' Mon Feb 25 19:00:00 EST >>>>> 2013 $ >>> Requires a Unix like system... >> Finding the current time in UTC could reasonably be left as an exercise >> for the reader... > > It could be posted on the Internet Draft submission tool page, including a > "countdown clock" too, if you really want useful ;-) > > Then again, having these deadlines at all is a bit silly. > > It just forces authors to "informally distribute" updates directly on the > list, and cuts off access to work that doesn't need to happen in sync with > an IETF meeting. Something like "documents published less than two weeks before a WG session cannot be discussed in this session" would be better. Also, "slides published less than one week before a WG session cannot be used in this session". - -- Marc Petit-Huguenin Email: marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/petithug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRLRFDAAoJECnERZXWan7EKBMQALd82QtUSxacpAczLjgCU/tO HpJgxvMtTyhAZaa25DO+yB/AQn/wYWTqYWJQNxUmvlZ8u5elux78dLrhJPr5IzGB dG9B7xM9w0OP9CKLDVJOGQxLBOXAblANS809lHF8HmzdXdj1UvgrqOST/g1LNVRr FaEe8yf97F2fOSGN7erX7vmZ+Adf647Au0MhxfwRkEF+me8WEeXIMsYe9+faP/Io 6f+rc0SSBSGZl7/mHE2mfdSwHEwNN/GYR8AHOjq2+GtKmHSogXg0m7UxHjkVZ4Sr bBqtfjYEtMJZx/BZJ9IdoD8n8XRJpnxRz2bPDVw3n5IZxXgF09zATpyp4Q9B1Ie8 T7rjr2k8aYqaiWqnFAwbCMxa+mYWojKJgVUi5tRWsYDtmqxkCWy1iJ6HFHFI8D6v i0Y3HCZL8IHTft3Xkz3D00qxya1/WC/COC/TKoEsZCMk6XAlfua5DcFzPgjcZZIW cAKaWDWz+t4PPxTBPTFgfBIqeMiV+Blor7N3Z9AGzhM+f2zrpih1Tp+gQpcfmXdE b4SjdfAQbNgu0ktDTRWIU1UOUM1UVT1goHnjiw14Shi/9bbuU9yWHOd8CzP1d2LN 6cCi91i1bK2kK17FpL9G7fbeQ/qqJSu/s+6a2gRCVIS8ZnNMXcJAN0hiRpCrLbT2 wToOJQf8npzwUjkJUfeL =QFzZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----