Re: Our deadlines are dizzyingly complex and confusing

[Spencer Dawkins <spencer at mcsr-labs.org>]

Laksminath's note is more detailed, but it's roughly what I was thinking at 
about 2 PM EST today :-(

I'm sure there's an opportunity for us to pick a time zone for IETF 71 
cutoffs!

Thanks,

Spencer


> Hi,
>
> I just found out that I missed the deadline for early-bird registration 
> and payment.  I registered early, but was planning to pay just in time, 
> but alas the deadline has passed.  I was thinking that the deadline is 
> later in the day, end of the business day Eastern time.
>
> We have deadlines at 9:00 ET, 12:00 ET and 17:00 ET for draft submission, 
> WG session scheduling, payments and proceedings submission. I was thinking 
> that all payment deadlines are at 17:00 ET, end of business day.  They are 
> not!  The early-bird registration and payment deadline is at 12:00 ET and 
> the final pre-registration and pre-payment deadline is 17:00 ET.  Perhaps 
> there is a logic to this, but it is not intuitive to me.
>
> Could all deadlines be at the same time (on different days obviously) to 
> avoid such confusion in future?
>
> thanks,
> Lakshminath
>
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