- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@xythos.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:48:09 -0800
- To: "'WebDAV'" <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
I've talked to a couple people about why the IETF has draft deadlines, since we've slipped a couple times in how we meet the deadlines and what we do about changes post-deadline. Basically the issue is fairness to everyone. 1. Participants need a chance to prepare. We all need about a week to read a reasonable number of drafts to prepare properly for an IETF meeting. 2. There needs to be a clear understanding what version we're all talking about. A version-number-less Web URL doesn't provide this clarity. It's likely to result in arguments about what version something appeared in. 3. People who don't participate in the mailing list very closely still ought to be able to catch up with the working group by reading drafts before showing up in the meeting. They won't know about drafts submitted after the deadline. Please make a greater effort to meet the draft deadline. We do deeply appreciate all the work that goes into drafts, and it is hard to meet deadlines. We also understand that the authors of the drafts benefit from unofficial side channels like Web pages to discuss work in progress, and that the draft authors may beneficially share these URLs with the whole working group. However, anything discussed in an official WG meeting ought to be submitted by the deadline. Lisa and Jim
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