Making the assumption that ID submissions are easy to parse for their
references - perhaps it might be useful for the submission tools to send a note
to the reference authors/point of contact that a draft dependent on that
reference is in progress? And give a link for "track status" subscriptions.
Here's my thinking on this - mostly I see the last call/RFC announcements for
documents that have gone through a lot of review and a lot of thought, but
still occasionally are missing the nuances or edge conditions when bringing in
other references. The current one is a DNSSEC related document that doesn't
quite have the correct statement about what "revoked" does. The document is
Informational and so the issue is minor, but would have been fixable had I
caught it in the stream of ID announcements earlier.
This is a minor tweak - and no real harm if its not implemented, but might be
helpful in the future.
Mike