Subject: [TOOLS-DEVELOPMENT] Tools Call: 16 Feb 2011

From: Steve Conte <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:19:06 -0800

IETF Tools Call - 16 Feb 2011

Attendees:
Ray Pelletier
Bob Hinden
Henrik Levkowetz
Ron Bonica
Steve Conte
Karen 
Alexa Morris
Glen Barney
Russ Housley
Julian Reschke
Tony Hansen
Alice Hagens

1.  PM Update - Henrik
	Tools Acceptance testing
	Projects in work
	
HL: submission tool rewrite and WG Chair new tool are now ready for beta testing.  
requested mailing list - folks to be invited for testing
expects some things will need adjustment and developer is very responsive 
hopefully less hassle than with the liasion tool
Liasion tool - finding and fixing things.  Need time with secretariat (Alexa?) to go 
over changes in DB for the accept and authorization
For conversion, HL wrote initial proxy class code, but almost all code will be 
written by contractor (IOLA).  Need to do changeover quickly after so no new issues 
arise
RH: Can cutover take place between prague and quebec city?
HL: Yes, probably not before prague 
RH: Can anything in prague be done to make cutover easier prior to quebec city?
HL: Can't think of anything specific, but important to deploy new submission tools prior
HL: Any manual fixing to be done hoping to be incorporated into program 
RP: What's target date for completion of acceptance testing
HL: No date yet, but happy to set one.  When we want to complete is a question of how
much do we want to rush submission tool 
RP: In the past, we've avoided new tools just before a meeting.. probably a good idea
RH: Yes, but this may be an exception as there is a spike of submissions prior to a 
meeting and if it'll make it easier, it may be worth deploying early... IF there's 
confidence in the new tool
HL: HL to test tool (with volunteers) to determine confidence level of submission tool
Can the person @ secretariat that receives manual submissions, can they forward to HL so
he can put into new tool as a test mechanism
AM: Yes

2.  XML2RFC RFP - Ray

RP: rfp was issued on 11 Feb, expecting proposals by 28 feb.  3 Mar will be discussed 
at IAOC.  Decision by 17 Mar. Looking at 23 May for tool delivery.

RFP was distributed broadly to gain good pool of potential contractors

No questions yet (due friday) but received a few Thank Yous 

3.  Code Sprint

SC dropped ball and has a mail out to Marcia to finalize room and F&B

RP: This is now mostly established and will run in an "automatic" mode and will get
notification from Marcia if the logistical format can't be met

4.  Asia Server

HL: Up.. had to fix some things but it's running fine

5.  AMS Update

GB: continuing to convert sec tools to django.
begun committing of code to repository
expect to have between 3-4 new sec tools to show ietf leadership in prague 
pending list: analysis on some other tools, 2 new tools beginning work now
still have issue to discuss on failover and server upgrade tests
RH: Would like to see Apr for cutover test
GB: April looks fine

GB: had an offer a while ago from Hurricane Electric to bring in additional bandwidth 
to IETF server center.  HE hasn't contacted GB in a while to try to finish this 
project.
BH: Spoke to HE while in Paris.  They're still very interested.  Wants to upgrade 
hardware.  Email will be sent, but contact is traveling a lot lately.
GB: Will also try to get HE to provide IPv6 at the Orlando site.

RH: rfcdiff tool. had long discussion of archives of IDs.  Determined that we have 
the archives and someone was going to look at them and make a proposal to make them 
available online.  Haven't seen a proposal yet from AMS
GB: have the archive and syncing them from tools server.  
RH: have a question about the secretariats authoritative collection of archive.. aren't
missing any, but some seem to be located in other places.  need a proposal to 
determine how to get them all together
HL: Needs to discuss with GB to ensure that the archive is indeed authoritative 

6.  IT Update - if not covered

RP: 
This year: 

completed 1 work order 
2 in acceptance testing
3 in work
4 in development
1 RFP

HL: How far along is community ID tracking tool?
RP: out for AD review and last call
RH: Have Henrik and Alexa looked at it from architecture and user interface perspective
HL: One question which HL sent off .. awaiting response
AM: read an earlier version and will read newest
HL: ID tracking is more important as it affects more people
RH: {phone garble and missed the priority}

7.  Other

JR: if there are questions about rfp2rfc, who will answer them
RH: tools list and xmldev list if there are difficult questions

AH: heads up about some citiation changes coming to RFCs.

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Steve Conte
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