Several years ago, when submitting drafts became automated, we used to have
a hard cut-off and be unable to submit new drafts until after IETF.
That caused issues if discussions caused the desire to change/update drafts
during the meeting, then there was no way of having an easily accessible
version.
The current situation is a compromise where drafts can be updated during the
meeting - and WG chairs have discretion.
I think we've tweaked this one enough - not all WGs are the same.
Alia
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Pete Resnick <presnick(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com>
wrote:
On 8/2/11 8:03 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
Either don't have a cutoff at all or make it a requirement that all
materials be submitted in advance of the meeting.
Personally, I think chairs should have the discretion to allow or disallow
discussion of documents submitted at any time, that they should be tougher
about what they disallow, and that they should face the wrath of their WG
members and their AD if they aren't. Right now, we have a deadline, but also
allow for special dispensation to let drafts through. If chairs feel that
they need *some* deadline written down somewhere in order to push back on
things, I have an alternate suggestion:
Right now, all -00 submissions of WG drafts are gated on chair approval (I
believe in an automated fashion). We could simply make the tool gate *all*
WG submissions from some time before the meeting through the meeting week.
That way, chairs can decide whether they will enforce the deadline and not
let the draft through, or make exceptions and let the drafts through. See
above statement regarding "wrath" if the chairs abuse this authority in
either direction.
(If we had the resources, we could make the tool settable on a per-WG
basis: One chair could say, "I want to gate all drafts", another could say,
"I want to gate none", and others could put in a date range for gating.)
Again, I don't think there needs to be a cutoff or a gating function.
Chairs already have the authority to tell folks to go jump in a lake. But
I'm not against a tool if chairs feel like they need some sort of "official"
pushback mechanism.
pr
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