Re: [Ietf-and-github] Tracking drafts

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

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