Heather Flanagan <rse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In order to get a better sense of how well the RFC Production Center and
> Publisher are serving the needs of authors, I would like to start sending out
> a short survey to authors immediately after the publication of their RFC
> starting on February 1, 2019. Participation in the survey is entirely
> optional, but the expectation is that requesting feedback immediately after
> publication will be more effective than the current process of randomly
> selecting a percentage of authors who have published in the previous year and
> asking them to recollect what did and did not work for them.
I appreciate this effort, and I don't want to take away from it.
I think that we have a bigger production problem that involves bigger
documents. I was recently involved in the ~3month AUTH48 effort around
RFC8415 (DHCPv6bis)... The RFC Production Center did a totally awesome job.
The question is really: should we be producing such long documents?
At 154 pages, it's not even close to what I understand NFSv4 was.
Are we any good at this? Are there any processes/proceedures/tools
that we could learn from the fiction publishing business?
Could we start some of the editing process earlier?
Would it help during IESG review?
> The proposed questions in the survey are:
> 1 Did the editing service provided by the RFC Editor improve the quality of
> your document? [Yes|No]
But, to your question, I suggest that you ask a few extra questions.
* How long was it from WGLC to the beginning of AUTH48?
(You know how long AUTH48 is, and also how long it was from IESG/ISE
approval and AUTH48, but not how many cycles at IESG there were)
* Were there outside issues that made it hard to respond to AUTH48 in
a timely fashion? For instance, if the document requires a lot of
mental context, was it hard to "return" to the document to finish it?
* Did the document remain in MISSREF for a long duration?
* Were you aware of where the document was in the queue? Did you look?
Did you get adequate notice as to when AUTH48 might occur?
* Did you have difficulties reaching all authors for approval?
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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sandelman Software Works
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