Re: [Ietf-and-github] Tracking drafts

["Joel M. Halpern" <[e-mail]>]

I do not see a note giving this advice in the draft that is currently up 
for publication.  I hope I am merely missing something.

Yours,
Joel

On 2/1/2020 10:25 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 02-Feb-20 10:32, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
>> One of the things I do in order to find out about work outside of WGs I
>> am involved in is that I read the internet-draft announcements.
>>
>> Mostly, I am happy to get updates there when new versions of drafts are
>> sufficiently stable to be worth checking.  So intermediate minor updates
>> only being made to the github is not a problem.
>>
>> But it struck me that if early versions of drafts are only on github,
>> and discussed on the WG list, this makes it much harder for me (and
>> others who are trying to track work outside their center of attention)
>> to know about the work.
>>
>> I am not sure what the right answer is.  It seems that it would help if
>> the guidelines encouraged people to post I-Ds as early as practical.
> 
> I'd be shocked if that wasn't the case. Otherwise we will get people
> posting pre-cooked drafts and blocking discussion by saying it's too late,
> we decided that on github.
> 
> This is quite similar to the dilemma of when a design team should open
> up its thinking to the WG. Too soon is boring for everybody, too late
> damages the open process.
> 
>      Brian
>