Subject: Extending the Datatracker to display user-specific lists of drafts

From: Paul Hoffman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:15:58 -0700

Greetings again. There is a new draft that may be of interest specifically to WG chairs: <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-genarea-datatracker-community>. The abstract is:

   The document gives a set of requirements for extending the IETF
   Datatracker to give individual IETF community members, including the
   IETF leadership, easy methods for tracking the progress of the
   Internet Drafts of interest to them.

For example, you would be able to easily create a list of the drafts from your WG, other WGs that are related to yours, and also include specific non-WG drafts that relate to work in your WG. You could then find out their current status as well as get notifications when any of the drafts in your list changes state. The status of lists could be viewed in the Datatracker, in RSS readers as Atom feeds, and in your email client as messages when drafts in the list change.

Also, you can create lists that can be shared with your WG. "This is the list of drafts that people following this WG should be following".

I hope a bunch of WG chairs are interested in helping set the requirements for this extension to the Datatacker. Please join the mailing list for the discussion at <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/datatracker-rqmts>. There will also be a BoF session (iddtspec) for this topic in Beijing on Monday afternoon.

--Paul Hoffman