[TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Fwd: Call for Review: <draft-sparks-genarea-manualpost-tracking-00.txt> (Tracking Manual I-D Post Requests)

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

> From: IETF Chair <[e-mail]>
> Date: October 20, 2015 8:03:47 AM EDT
> To: IETF Announcement List <[e-mail]>
> Cc: IETF <[e-mail]>, Russ Housley <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Call for Review: <draft-sparks-genarea-manualpost-tracking-00.txt> (Tracking Manual I-D Post Requests)
> Reply-To: IETF <[e-mail]>, Russ Housley <[e-mail]>
> 
> This is a request for a review of a Statement of Work from the IAOC
> Tools Committee. Please take a look at the document and provide the
> committee feedback.
> 
> Jari Arkko
> 
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> 
> The IAOC Tools Committee has developed a Statement of Work (SoW) for
> an enhancement to the IETF Datatracker to assist in requests for
> manual Internet-Draft posting.  We are asking for review by the
> IETF community before seeking a vendor to write the software to
> implement the new Datatracker features described in the document.
> 
> The transparency of the I-D submission process needs to be improved,
> particularly for those submissions that are handled directly by the
> IETF Secretariat.  These are referred to as "manual" and "forced"
> I-D submissions.
> 
> When an author uses the IETF Datatracker I-D submission tool, some
> information is captures about the event, including when the I-D was
> submitted, when it was approved, and who made the submission.
> Currently, the document history shows only that a new version is
> available.
> 
> The I-D submission tool presents an option for authors to request the
> IETF Secretariat finish the submission process.  When this option is
> exercised, the Datatracker captures the candidate document and then
> sends email to the Secretariat.  Often the request is made because the
> I-D submission tool was unable to extract correct meta-data from the
> document.  In this case, the Secretariat populates the meta-data, and
> then forces the post.  Currently, normal submission event information
> is not collected when the Secretariat forces the post; this effort
> will allow it to be collected.
> 
> The Secretariat also receives email requests to post an I-D, bypassing
> the I-D submission tool altogether.  Currently, the Secretariat receives
> about 10 such requests each meeting cycle.  When this happens, the
> Secretariat operates the I-D submission tool on behalf of the author,
> and as a result, the submission event information does not reflect that
> a manual I-D submission request was processed ob behalf of the author.
> This effort will allow accurate submission event information to be
> collected for manual I-D submission.
> 
> The Secretariat currently relies on a combination of RT and personal
> email archives to keep track of the outstanding manual I-D submission
> requests.  This effort will provide proper workflow tracking of these
> requests.
> 
> The file can be obtained via
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sparks-genarea-manualpost-tracking-00.txt/
> 
> No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
> 
> The IAOC plans to solicit bids for the development of these new features
> in the next few weeks, and solicits comments on this SoW. Please send
> comments to the [e-mail] mailing lists by November 10, 2015.
> Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [e-mail] instead.  In either
> case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated
> sorting.
> 
> Thank you,
> Russ Housley
> Chair of the IAOC Tools Committee