Re: When to adopt a draft as a WG doc (was RE: "IETF work is done on the mailing lists")

"Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com> Mon, 03 December 2012 18:24 UTC

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From: "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com>
To: SM <sm@resistor.net>
Subject: Re: When to adopt a draft as a WG doc (was RE: "IETF work is done on the mailing lists")
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On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:03 PM, SM wrote:

> According to some RFC:
> 
>  "All relevant documents to be discussed at a session should be published
>   and available as Internet-Drafts at least two weeks before
>   a session starts."
> 
> If the above was followed there shouldn't be any draft submissions during the week a meeting is held. 

Not sure I agree with that. A draft submitted during the indicated week isn't up for discussion that week, but it may easily be the start of a mailing list discussion for a subsequent meeting, or it may be an update to a draft as an outcome of discussion. I see both pretty regularly.