JMP> Re: JMP Internet Draft didn't make the cutoff

JMP> Re: JMP Internet Draft didn't make the cutoff

Chris Wellens chrisw at iwl.com
Thu Apr 3 11:09:38 EST 1997


Tom,


Everyone should have your work ethic.  


(1)  The Job Monitoring MIB is still on the schedule for the Tuesday,
April 8, 2-3 p.m.


(2)  Bring extra copies of the draft to the meeting.


(3)  Send a concise announcement of the date, time, and URL for
the document to ietf at ietf.org.  That will be the best way to
advertise it to other attendees.


By the way, I will not be there, because of a meeting I must
attend on Monday that is all day, and causes me to miss the last
flight.


On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Tom Hastings wrote:


> I'm terribly embarrassed, but I didn't make the IETF cutoff time
> for the Job Monitoring MIB.
> 
> I just talked to Steve Coya of the IETF staff.
> He said that there is no problem with discussing what was supposed to
> be the I-D, at the IETF meeting next week, as long as the printmib
> chair (Chris Wellens and Don) agree.  Most chairs don't have a problem
> with discussing papers that aren't I-Ds.  The unfortunate thing is that
> we don't get feed back from non-PWG members.  Ok Chris to discuss the
> Job Monitoring MIB draft at the printmib meeting next week, even though
> it wasn't posted as an Internet Draft?  I don't know how we can advertize
> the location of the document on the pwg server to others who might attend.
> 
> Also we have to resubmit the draft after the meeting.  The IETF doesn't
> keep a queue.  I suggest that we submit it as soon as we can, in order 
> to get more IETF feed back, rather than waiting for the next IETF meeting
> where all the I-Ds get bunched up.
> 
> What happened:
> 
> Steve said that my Email didn't
> make the 5:00 pm EST (2:00 pm PST) cutoff time by 4 minutes on
> March 26.  The IETF looks at the posting time, not the arrival time, 
> so mail delays don't enter in.
> 
> Unfortuantely, when I went to send the I-D at 1:50 pm PST, my mail 
> server was down, even though everything else on my Sun workstation was 
> working fine.  So I had to copy the file to a diskette and send it from 
> Stan's PC.  By that time, I had run past 5:00 pm by 4 minutes.  I've never
> seen this problem before.  Sorry.
> 
> Even if I had gotten it posted, it still had the overstrike formatting
> problem.  While I think it could have been printed ok, it isn't readable
> on a screen.  The lines that are overstruck with CR and a bunch of spaces
> appear on the next line on the screen.  I'm in the process of getting a
> program to undo overstrikes that the Generic text print driver uses
> to output page number, cross reference page numbers, and tables.  I will
> make this program available for all to use along with the cscan and maxln
> tools I have already contributed (courtesy of Ira McDonald).
> I had removed all bolding, since I knew that the generic print driver
> sends three lines with the bold material present on the second and third
> pass.
> 
> BTW we should add these tools for creating I-Ds and RFCs to the PWG
> web page for use by all our projects.
> 
> So the document for the IETF printmib meeting next week (and this
> week JMP meeting) should be the one that is formatted with TimesRoman
> font:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/jmp/mibs/jmp-mib.pdf
> 
> (and has the cover page that is not part of the I-D and has the change
> history that is not part of the I-D.)
> 
> NOT the one formatted with the fixed pitch Courier throughout:
> 
> ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/jmp/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-printmib-job-monito
> ring-00.pdf
> 
> Steve said to resubmit as 00.txt after April 14 including any changes
> we want to make (which may be considerable after Harry's presentation).
> 
> Tom
> 
> 



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