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Re: Ietf Digest, Vol 39, Issue 13

2011-08-02 14:10:59


Maurice Zenarosa
Technology Department
Lynwood Unified School District


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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule
     (Spencer Dawkins)
  2. Re: Drafts Submissions cut-off (SM)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:10:52 -0500
From: "Spencer Dawkins" <spencer(_at_)wonderhamster(_dot_)org>
To: "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter(_at_)stpeter(_dot_)im>, "John C Klensin"
      <john(_at_)jck(_dot_)com>
Cc: IETF <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Subject: Re: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule
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Peter,

A side benefit is that the IESG/IAB could have a lunch meeting on Friday
(as opposed to the current breakfast meeting) and cover all the hot
topics from the week (not the week minus Friday).

/psa

I agree with your point here, and add that the joint IAB/IESG Friday session 
isn't only a BOF report session, it's "hot spots, however defined" - we've 
usually at least SEEN all the BOFs by Friday breakfast, but that doesn't 
mean we've seen all the hot spots ;-)

Spencer 



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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:46:49 -0700
From: SM <sm(_at_)resistor(_dot_)net>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
Cc: IETF Discussion Mailing List <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Subject: Re: Drafts Submissions cut-off
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Hi Phillip,
At 11:31 AM 8/1/2011, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
Over the weekend I attempted to determine the rules for discussion 
of drafts at IETF meetings and was surprised to discover that they 
are not actually written down anywhere (other than on the meetings 
page). As a result we appear to have an anomalous situation in which 
an author who misses the cut-off date for ID submissions is in fact 
entitled to sit on the draft for two weeks and then submit when the 
ID queue re-opens.

I suggest that this is a sub-optimal state of affairs. I see two solutions:

1) Codify the requirement that materials to be discussed at the 
meeting must be submitted before the cut-off and that submissions 
made during meetings are strictly limited to revisions occurring 
after and between WG sessions. [Except in exceptional circumstances 
with AD approval]

2) Eliminate the 2 week cut off completely.

I'll start by quoting Scott Brim [1]:

  "One generation's rule of thumb becomes the next generation's dogma.
   The IETF should sit up and really think when someone suggests that
   a process has become dogma."

Quoting Ned [2]:

  "I'd much rather breach the sanctity of the rules by getting rid of
   some of them entirely."

Quoting Russ [3]:

  "When all of the Internet-Drafts were processed by Secretariat staff,
   there was a huge workload concern.  Now that the Internet-Draft
   Submission Tool (IDST) is taking the bulk of the load, there are
   resources to deal with these exceptions, as was just demonstrated."

Which was in response to John Klensin who said [4]:

  "The original reason for those cutoffs -- even more important
   than giving people time to read drafts -- was that the
   submissions were overwhelming the Secretariat.  Not only did
   they have other things to do in the weeks before the meeting, it
   was becoming unpredictable whether a draft submitted in advance
   of the meeting would be posted early enough for the relevant WG
   to look at it.  The split between "new" and "revised" drafts was
   another attempt to protect the Secretariat -- notions of having
   to formally approve WG drafts came later."

And Dave said [5]:

  "It would seem that the right thing is to remove the cutoff and let
    each working group decide on what drafts will be worked on."

Spencer Dawkins [6] quoted Section 7.1 of RFC 2418.

Pete Resnick was of the opinion [7] that:

  "The cutoff is an arbitrary procedure to try (poorly IMO) to enforce
   the 2418 rule."

I suggest that WG chairs stop asking the working group whether they 
have read the draft as it is silly.  It is an impossible task to keep 
up with the flood of I-D that are submitted on Meeting Monday.

Regards,
-sm

1. msg-id: 48821469(_dot_)4050907(_at_)employees(_dot_)org
2. msg-id: 01MXC0962CLI00007A(_at_)mauve(_dot_)mrochek(_dot_)com
3. msg-id: 20080719191556(_dot_)567F03A6A32(_at_)core3(_dot_)amsl(_dot_)com
4. msg-id: 2E1B2AB9703690B8E1EEBE90(_at_)p3(_dot_)JCK(_dot_)COM
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6. msg-id: 013501c8ea6a$271e28a0$6501a8c0(_at_)china(_dot_)huawei(_dot_)com
7. msg-id: p06250100c4a9226eac87@[75.145.176.242] 



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