Thanks a lot for the effort.
I like it very much and I think it is exactly the right way to open up the
IESG process. I think and hope it will prevent bad feelings about decisions
and suspicion of extenal influence.
Marcus
--On Montag, 4. November 2002 16:44 -0500 Harald Tveit Alvestrand
<harald(_at_)alvestrand(_dot_)no> wrote:
Hello,
The IESG is always trying to work better.
We have gotten a number of comments from the community that it is
sometimes very hard to find out what the IESG is doing to documents, why
documents take a long time to process, who makes comments, what the
comments are and so on, and that this is a significant source of
frustration for the community.
For the last year or so, the secretariat has been working on a tool to
help us keep track of what documents are on our plate, what state they
are in and who is responsible for them; we call it the "ID tracker".
It's been in use for about 6 months now, and has definitely improved our
ability to keep track.
For several months, the "status of items" pages on the IESG web pages
have been generated from this tool, showing the high-order bit of who we
think is responsible.
In order to help you know more about what we are doing, we've decided to
open up a public view of the ID tracker itself.
This will allow you to search for the documents you want to look at, and
for each document see:
- What its current state is
- What the history of IESG processing is
- AD and IESG comments on the document
- For documents in IESG consideration for standards track, what the
individual ADs have indicated as their opinion on the document, and if
they think there are problems with it, what the comments are.
The last point is a revision of previous IESG policy, based on the
feedback from the Yokohama plenary; we are now telling you the names
that go with each comment from the IESG members.
The system is far from perfect - you can tell from the history of
documents that we've been changing this as we go along - but we hope
that it will be a useful tool for people to figure out what the IESG is
doing with their documents, and for them to have an easier time talking
to the relevant ADs in order to get what we all want out of the process
- relevant, high quality standards for the Internet.
The tool and its documentation is found at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi
The link to it is also visible on the IESG Web page.
Welcome!
The IESG
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Network Laboratories
NEC Europe Ltd.
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