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Re: Internet Draft Final Submission Cut-Off Today

2013-02-27 12:49:31
+1

In any case, the proposal as I understood it was that the deadline *would*
apply to drafts which the secretariat had to examine, just not the rest.
 I certainly don't agree with giving an unsupportable load to our
secretariat before the meetings (and it isn't being proposed by me :) )

-=R


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:18 AM, <ned+ietf(_at_)mauve(_dot_)mrochek(_dot_)com> 
wrote:


On Feb 26, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Pete Resnick 
<presnick(_at_)qti(_dot_)qualcomm(_dot_)com>
wrote:

But more seriously: I agree with you both. The deadline is silly.

+1

+1

The deadline originated because the secretariat needed time to post all
of those drafts (by hand) before the meeting.  The notion of an automated
tool that blocks submissions for two weeks before the meeting is just silly.

All the more so since it just leads people to use informal distribution
methods. I don't recall a case where a chair forbid the discussion of a
draft
distributed this way.

I recall hearing something once about routing around obstacles... Pity we
don't
internalize such principles fully.

                                Ned