Re: [Ietf-and-github] Meeting deadlines

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 2:41 PM Andrew G. Malis <agmalis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Rob,
>
> There is a third purpose - to give WG participants enough time to read the
> relevant drafts before arriving at the meeting (you may see that as a
> corollary to your second purpose).
>

Yes, definitely.

> Just speaking as a WG chair, it's obviously up to each WG to decide how to
> do their work. However, I expect that a popular choice would be that the
> revision of a draft that is to be discussed at a WG meeting be the version
> on the datatracker (not in GitHub), and that the IETF's submission cutoff
> be respected. Which would require the designated editor to upload the
> designated revision to the datatracker prior to the deadline.
>

I don't the flexibility is good or bad. It seems like using GitHub right up
until the meeting could be really efficient, but also allow more bad
behavior from chairs, editors, etc.

thanks,
Rob

>
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 4:40 PM Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've always seen the Internet-Draft cutoff before an IETF meeting as
>> serving two purposes:
>>
>> 1) prevent the publishing staff from being overwhelmed
>> 2) prevent people from springing revisions and new drafts at the last
>> minute
>>
>> Using GitHub routes around both of these issues. I'm not sure if that's
>> good or bad, but it seems like something to take into consideration.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Rob
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