[hybi] Publishing drafts, Re: WebSocket feedback

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 04.03.2010 04:21, Ian Hickson wrote:
> ...
> On an unrelated note, it has been brought to my attention that uploading
> drafts to the IETF site requires human intervention, and that the person
> behind this process has requested that I not update the draft as
 > ...

Either this is a misunderstanding, it's a very *hard* working person, or 
actually many -- otherwise I don't see how it's possible to publish 
drafts at any time of day world-wide.

That being said, it's good advice not to use the IETF I-D publication 
process as substitute for version control.

Recommendation to this WG: once there are Working Group drafts, use 
trac/svn and tools.ietf.org to version control and issue tracking.

 > ...
> frequently. In order to maintain the transparency of the process, I've
> switched to putting the latest drafts here:
>
>     http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-socket-protocol/
>
> When I update the IETF copy (which I'll now do more rarely) I'll also
> update it to clearly point to the above draft to avoid any confusion about
> where the latest copy is.
> ...

Keep in mind that the I-D cut-off date is Monday; in general, IETF 
participants can not be expected to have read drafts that weren't 
published at that time.

Best regards, Julian