On 3/10/2013 8:27 AM, Eric Burger wrote:
I do but don't care. With my IETF hat on, the whole point of the cut-off is to enforce a physical barrier to ensure we do not ever hear, "I posted this draft yesterday, let's talk about it" in a work group. With my legal services hat on, with the US joining the rest of the world with first-to-file, those few weeks of publication could mean the difference between a free and open standard and a NPE swooping in and attempting to tax the industry.
If that were a problem for all working groups, all the time, it might make at least some sense. But it isn't, so it doesn't.
It also entirely underestimates the ability of participants to generate new, unreasonable demands...
Ultimately the problem you are using for justification is a matter of good working group management.
Solve it with better management, not artificial barriers that are imposed on everyone and that can be trivially routed around, albeit without the benefits of using the I-D mechanism.
d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net