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email reminders say when a draft expires, but not that you can't submit?

2015-10-20 00:59:11
Well, this is mildly irritating.

Had a bunch of warnings about drafts expiring:

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IETF Secretariat <ietf-secretariat-reply(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
To      draft-wood-tsvwg-saratoga(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org Oct 19 at 10:42 PM
The following draft will expire soon:

Name:    draft-wood-tsvwg-saratoga
Title:    Saratoga: A Scalable Data Transfer Protocol
State:    I-D Exists
Expires:  2015-10-20 (in 19 hours, 17 minutes)
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Drafts were expiring sometime on the 20th of October (in, one presumes, the US, 
because no timezone was given, and the IETF is very much a US organisation. I 
live in Australia, no timezone for expiry time given on these emails.)

So I refreshed the draft ready to do the necessary six-month accounting. Only 
to discover that I-D submission had already closed at midnight UTC on the 19th 
because of the upcoming IETF meeting. Which wasn't mentioned in the email.

Why not state the earlier submission deadline as well as a hard limit? Why 
aren't timezones stated?

Bravo for https://datatracker.ietf.org/submit/ stating timezones, if not 
consistently.

Please file lack of timezones and lack of consideration of early submission 
deadlines as a bug.

thanks
Lloyd Wood
http://about.me/lloydwood