Re: Progressing I-Ds Immediately Before Meetings

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> People seem to be forgetting that all I-D submissions used to be
> processed an a person.  The automated tool is very new.  When the I-D
> were processed by hand, the cut-off was necessary for the Secretariat
> to handle the spike of submissions just prior to the meeting.  Look
> at the statistics report by IETF chair in their plenary presentations
> for the last few years -- the meetings cause a huge spike in I-D
> submissions.  Remember back when the I-D submissions were handled by
> hand, it could be days after the submission that the document
> actually appeared in the repository.

There seems to be some disagreement as to why the cutoff was established. (My
recollection is that it had more to do with stability than with Secretariat
workload, but it was a long time ago and I freely admit my memory may be
faulty.) But how we got here is not the real issue, what to do now that we're
here is.

> Now that we have the tool, it is a reasonable time to see if we still
> need this cut-off rule.

+1

> I have put the topic on the agenda for the
> IESG discussions in Dublin.

Most excellent.

> I see this an opportunity for evolution and incremental improvement.

Exactly.

				Ned
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