Fw: IETF Tools

Fred Baker posted the following note to v6ops, and other versions may be 
floating around other mailing lists, but I wanted to follow up to a wider 
distribution.

- The IETF tools site IS continuing to add really cool functionality (as 
detailed by Bert/Fred below), but I haven't seen anything broadly 
distributed about one of the most helpful additions.

- If you go to http://tools.ietf.org/wg/ and select a specific working 
group, you get the working group drafts that you can get from other places, 
but you ALSO get "Related Documents", which is basically any non-working 
group Internet Drafts that have "-(working group name)-" as a component in 
the filename.

- So, if you select  http://tools.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/, you don't just get the 
WG drafts, you also get a list of documents with titles like 
draft-baker-v6ops-end2end-00.txt  - not a working group draft, but "of 
interest".

- This makes scraping all of the drafts that will be discussed in a 
face-to-face meeting a LOT easier than cut-and-pasting draft names from a 
text agenda (of course, the tools page also provides HTML-ized agendas, if 
the text agendas included actual draft names - see 
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/agenda for an example).

- The definition of "related" means "includes -(working group name)- in the 
filename", so if Fred had named his draft 
draft-baker-hamster-end2end-00.txt, it would not have appeared as a "related 
document", unless we end up with a working group called hamster ("Host-Agile 
Multihomed Streaming Terrabit Error Reporting" would be an awesome BoF name, 
though).

- So, there's a real incentive to include working group names in your draft 
filename, if the draft actually targets a specific working group...

Thanks again to the Tools Group, for continuing to hack away at stuff like 
this.

Spencer

From: "Fred Baker" <fred@cisco.com>
To: <v6ops@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 12:58 PM
Subject: IETF Tools

> Forwarded from Bert Wijnen, with some slight hacking for relevance...
>
> Goto http://tools.ietf.org
>
> If you want to see nits or diffs for any I-D in your WG, you can find 
> them on the IETF Tools Page too!
> If you go to WG status pages, you get to:
>
>     http://tools.ietf.org/wg/
>
> From there you can go to your (or any) WG.
> See for example:
>
>     http://tools.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/
>
> You can click on dependencies and get to:
>
>     http://rtg.ietf.org/~fenner/ietf/deps/viz/v6ops.pdf
>
> Of you can click on document draft-ietf-v6ops-bb-deployment-scenarios  and 
> you get to:
>
>     http://tools.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/draft-ietf-v6ops-bb-deployment- 
> scenarios/
>
> from there you can see the file itself, any nits (ID-checklist) that  were 
> found, the diff bnetween all the versions etc.
>
> Very usefull information for authors, WG chairs, WG reviewers  actually 
> for everyone!
>
> Not sure everyone is really aware of it.
> 

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