The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) desires an IETF Mail List Archiving,
Web-Browsing & Search
Tool that will improve email list archiving and searching.
The IETF makes heavy use of electronic mail lists to conduct its work. IETF
Participants frequently need to
search the archives of these mail lists, and have asked for improved search
capabilities, particularly when the
search needs to cover a large period of time, or cross several lists. For
instance, document editors, shepherds,
working group chairs, and area directors may need to review all discussion of a
particular Internet-Draft. That
discussion may be spread across the working group list, one or more directorate
lists, and the IETF general
list. Occasionally, work impacts multiple groups, possibly in different areas,
and the search must cover
additional working group lists. The current tools for performing these
searches require several manually
coordinated steps, which are error prone. It is difficult to obtain a complete
local copy of the archive. Without
such a local copy, searching most working group lists requires brute force
effort, possibly aided by web search
engines. More advanced search capabilities have been constructed for a limited
subset of the available lists and
are exposed in the "Email Archives Quick Search" section of the main IETF
website. While these tools are of
great assistance, there is still significant need for improvement. The current
archive mechanism could also be
made more efficient. The current practices involve duplicate stores for the
web and ftp interfaces, which
impacts storage. Also, replication is subject to inconsistency.
Bidders may propose customization of an existing product(s), and/or development
of the solution.
The RFP can be found at: http://iaoc.ietf.org/rfpsrfis.html
Proposals must be received via email at agenda-tool(_at_)ietf-bids(_dot_)org no
later than July 9, 2012. All questions/
inquiries must be submitted in writing and must be received no later than June
25, 2012. Responses to
questions and inquiries shall be posted online at:
http://iaoc.ietf.org/rfpsrfis.html by June 29, 2012.
The point of contact regarding this RFP is the IETF Administrative Director,
Ray Pelletier, iad(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org.
Ray Pelletier