[AFS3-std] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Hackathon Summary

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Sunday, November 22, 2009 10:14:36 PM -0500 David Boyes 
<dboyes@sinenomine.net> wrote:

>> > While the IETF is sorting out it's tooling
>>
>> Not sure what this is supposed to mean...
>
> As I understand it, the IETF is changing the tools they use to manage
> drafts, including a new template and some new tools for managing drafts.

I think you are confused.  There is, of course, ongoing development on the 
tools the IETF and its participants use to create, submit, manage, and 
track Internet-Drafts.  However, there is no impending flag day that is 
preventing work from happening.


> Some submissions have been held up due to this process.

I am not aware of any I-D submissions that have been held up due to tools 
work.  However, the IETF meets three times a year, and for a brief period 
(usually 2-3 weeks) prior to each meeting, draft publication is suspended. 
This is done to insure that drafts submitted for discussion at the meeting 
are submitted and published early enough for participants to have a chance 
to read them in advance.  This is a normal process, not something being 
"held up" due to tools work.

> Given at the moment you can't actually submit drafts through the usual
> process

Yes, you can.  You've always been able to -- even during the draft 
publication blackout (most recently, Oct 26 through Nov 8); drafts 
submitted during that period simply are not published until the meeting 
begins.

> I'm asking whether this group is maintaining a coherent location
> for AFS-related documents while the above process gets finished.

Nope; we're using the I-D repository.  Folks here who have a desperate need 
to publish a new draft during the blackout period can do the same thing as 
IETFers who find themselves in that situation -- put the document up 
elsewhere for the 2 weeks.

-- Jeff