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RE: text suggested by ADs

2005-04-29 12:40:13

From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [mailto:jhutz(_at_)cmu(_dot_)edu] 

On Friday, April 29, 2005 09:18:08 AM -0700 "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" 
<pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com> wrote:

You miss out (3) TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THE TRACKER THAT EXISTS.

There is actually a tracker:
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi

Which has been linked to from the internet-drafts page for 
quite some time 
now.  It's also been mentioned in IETF plenaries and in 
numerous other 
forums.  I certainly knew about it well before becoming a WG chair.

The fact that others are proposing that the IETF build this type of tool
is evidence that others have the same problem. Many people do not attend
every IETF.

There should also be a prominent link to the datatracker from each
working group page. 


If you mean "what is the standards status of RFCxxxx; what updates or 
obsoletes it, etc", that information is in the rfc-index.txt 
file, and has 
been for as long as I can remember.

Even knowing that the file exists it takes me a lot of time to find each
time I need to refer to it. The IETF site is one of the few where I have
learned to use google as the primary navigation tool.
 
If the STD series is going to be useful then the tool that spits out the
current status of the RFCs should spit out HTML pages with the RFCs
indexed by status. 

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