Re: New tool prototypes

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

On 2005-03-04 3:52 pm Ólafur Guðmundsson said the following:

> 
> I think we need at least one more status state.
> In my working group we encourage people to write up their ideas as
> discussion platform. After 2-5 ideas are presented and discussed they
> morph into one final product.
> Frequently the first and second versions of these drafts
> are draft-<editor>-<wg> (our suggested notation) before making it
> to draft-ietf-<wg>.

I agree, and have planned to pick up and display these as "Related
personal drafts" (or some other suitable characterisation - feel free
to suggest alternatives).  This is on the TO-DO list.

> The status: "Expired" to me means the draft has been dropped
> but that is frequently not accurate.
> I would like to be able to indicate that a draft has
> been "Replaced by" another draft.
> 
> Example: on DNSEXT page in the Expired category are drafts:
>          draft-ietf-dnsext-parent-stores-zone-keys
>          draft-ietf-dnsext-parent-sig
> These two[1] drafts motivated and gave way to
>          draft-ietf-dnsext-delegation-signer  RFC 3658

Again, I agree.  The current pages will already now indicate
"Replaced by draft-....." if that information is in the secretariat's
data-base.  For the two drafts you mention above, the database
extract available in the form of the all_id.txt file simply
indicate "Expired".

We hope that the "Replaces ..." meta-information will be more
reliably and consistently captured when the automated draft-submission
tool is implemented (which will support this) but it will still be
up to the submitters to provide this information - I don't see any
good way of automating this...

>  From historical perspective I would like to somehow acknowledge
> the people that contributed to the process and how they did that.
> 
> I realize this is a larger issue than just the tool, as the
> back end database does not have this information.

Yes.  I like the the idea, but don't know today how to support
it tools-wise.

	Henrik


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