Again, perfectly reasonable, but not actually documented as the process. We write everything else down, why not this?
Sent from my iPad On Aug 2, 2011, at 21:52, Pete Resnick <presn...@qualcomm.com> wrote: > On 8/2/11 8:03 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: >> Either don't have a cutoff at all or make it a requirement that all >> materials be submitted in advance of the meeting. > > Personally, I think chairs should have the discretion to allow or disallow > discussion of documents submitted at any time, that they should be tougher > about what they disallow, and that they should face the wrath of their WG > members and their AD if they aren't. Right now, we have a deadline, but also > allow for special dispensation to let drafts through. If chairs feel that > they need *some* deadline written down somewhere in order to push back on > things, I have an alternate suggestion: > > Right now, all -00 submissions of WG drafts are gated on chair approval (I > believe in an automated fashion). We could simply make the tool gate *all* WG > submissions from some time before the meeting through the meeting week. That > way, chairs can decide whether they will enforce the deadline and not let the > draft through, or make exceptions and let the drafts through. See above > statement regarding "wrath" if the chairs abuse this authority in either > direction. > > (If we had the resources, we could make the tool settable on a per-WG basis: > One chair could say, "I want to gate all drafts", another could say, "I want > to gate none", and others could put in a date range for gating.) > > Again, I don't think there needs to be a cutoff or a gating function. Chairs > already have the authority to tell folks to go jump in a lake. But I'm not > against a tool if chairs feel like they need some sort of "official" pushback > mechanism. > > pr > > -- > Pete Resnick<http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/> > Qualcomm Incorporated - Direct phone: (858)651-4478, Fax: (858)651-1102 > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
