Re: Progressing I-Ds Immediately Before Meetings

[Russ Housley <housley at vigilsec.com>]

People seem to be forgetting that all I-D submissions used to be 
processed an a person.  The automated tool is very new.  When the I-D 
were processed by hand, the cut-off was necessary for the Secretariat 
to handle the spike of submissions just prior to the meeting.  Look 
at the statistics report by IETF chair in their plenary presentations 
for the last few years -- the meetings cause a huge spike in I-D 
submissions.  Remember back when the I-D submissions were handled by 
hand, it could be days after the submission that the document 
actually appeared in the repository.

Now that we have the tool, it is a reasonable time to see if we still 
need this cut-off rule.  I have put the topic on the agenda for the 
IESG discussions in Dublin.

I see this an opportunity for evolution and incremental improvement.

Russ

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