Document Blocking (Was: I-D

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

--On 19. mai 2003 09:26 -0400 John C Klensin <john-ietf at jck.com> wrote:

>> actually we imposed a deadline on ourselves last year.
>> Discuss writeups are due before the next telechat, or the
>> Discuss will be considered lifted. Most Discusses that are
>> communicated vocally on the call have their writeups on the
>> list before the end of the call; Discusses that come in on
>> email have their writeup with them, of course.
>
> This is a significant improvement.  Have you seen the difference in
> throughput?

We haven't really measured throughput... Eric Rescorla's numbers might show 
a change....?
>
> Just for clarification, this applies to _all_ documents --
> standards-track and not, and both WG-originated and individual
> submissions.  Right?

Just for standards-track, since we don't formally ballot informationals.

we've actually found that tracking the comments on informationals was 
problematic - ie we have had cases where we had comments on WG documents, a 
new version arrived 3 months later that purported to fix the comments, and 
we couldn't figure out from the logs what the original comment was.

We've got a new system for ballot handling being built now (as part of the 
I-D tracker), and we decided that we'd simply add ballots for 
non-standards-track too - but with different approval rules (no need to 
wait for "enough" people to say no-objection; the document is OK if it's 
been on a telechat agenda and nobody objects).

Trying to fix things where we can.......

                    Harald