Begin forwarded message: > From: IETF Administrative Director <iad@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: IPR Tool SOW for Community Input > Date: February 4, 2014 at 3:34:41 PM EST > To: IETF Announcement List <ietf-announce@xxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> > > Based upon community and IESG requests, the IAOC intends to seek bids on a revision to the IPR Tool > and desires community input on a draft IPR Tool Statement of Work. The SOW is located here: > <http://iaoc.ietf.org/rfps.html>. > > The community comment period ends 17 February 2014. The IAOC will consider all comments received > during this period. > > The IETF desires to improve the IPR component of the datatracker to remove or better isolate artifacts > from earlier implementations, allow submitters to update more than one disclosure at a time, and better > support the IETF Secretariat’s administrative actions. > > Deliverables include: > 1 Provide existing functionality using revised models (except where the functionality is being > changed by the remaining deliverables) > 2 Migrate existing data to new models > 3 Provide full admin interface support for the new models, with reasonable configurations for > list_display, search_field, ordering, etc. > 4 Improve the Secretariat’s navigation between IPR document views/search results and the > administrative pages to edit IPR documents. > 5 Add the ability for a disclosure submission to indicate it is updating more than one existing > disclosure. > 6 Improve the Secretariat’s management interface for the waiting for approval queue, including > adding the ability to park disclosures that are waiting for approval. > 7 Add a Secretariat management interface for rejected and removed disclosures. > 8 Implement simplified forms for Secretariat updates to a disclosure. > 9 Add the ability to manage email communication necessary for processing a submission. > > All information submitted in response to this announcement is voluntary and may be used in the > development of the SOW. > > Thanks for your continuing advice and support. > > Ray Pelletier > IETF Administrative Director