RE: WG chair use of the ID-tracker: Proposed tool addition

["Dan Wing" <[e-mail]>]

I applaud this effort - thank you very much.

* In several working groups, I have noticed an increased use of named
technical reviewers.  It might be useful to have a place for those people to
be listed, and also to get email notification of revisions of documents they
are reviewing (similar to how chairs and the WG itself is informed of new
revisions).  Some of these reviewers don't necessarily subscribe to the WG
mailing list itself (cross-area review, for example).

* Of the defined working group states, what is the intended purpose of the
"Not a WG Document" state?  Is this intended for (1) individual documents
which might be adopted by the working group, or (2) working group documents
that have been abandoned by the working group (that is, more abandoned than
the 'parked' state), or (3) is this the default state for all draft-*
documents?  

If (1), I suggest calling this state 'Potential WG document' or 'Chair is
Watching' (similar to the existing IESG "AD is watching" state), or 'Not Yet
a WG Document', or 'Impending WG Document'; if (2), I suggest 'Abandoned';
if (3), I suggest 'Individual Document' for draft-LASTNAME-*, and I suggest
creating 'IAB document' for draft-iab-*, 'IRTF' for draft-irtf-*, 'IESG',
'ITU', etc.

In any event, it would be useful if there was a way for a chair to indicate
that an individual submission is interesting to the working group, sometime
prior to it being adopted by the WG.  For example, perhaps the document
doesn't fit in the WG's charter yet, or a milestone needs to be added.  But
I suppose that state is pretty short-lived.  Anyway, I'll throw the idea out
there and see what y'all think about it.

* It might be useful to show anticipated WGLC dates or dependencies, perhaps
freeform in the WG state annotation.  See, for example,
  http://www.employees.org/behave/document-status.html

-d