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> QUIC was developed through a collaborative and iterative standardization process at the IETF after almost five years, 26 face-to-face meetings, 1,749 issues,
by treszkai 5y ago
> QUIC was developed through a collaborative and iterative standardization process at the IETF after almost five years, 26 face-to-face meetings, 1,749 issues, and many thousands of emails.
26 face-to-face meeting in 5 years is an extremely low number; I'm glad to see that the developers of the Internet embrace remote work :)
- tialaramex 5y agoIETF work is conducted mostly on email lists, hence the "many thousands of emails". For some newer work like QUIC, GitHub is used to maintain a more to-the-minute shared view of the documents, and then again as mentioned in the text you quoted, GitHub Issues and PRs are used to manage the document, particularly by the most active participants. https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts - of course raising issues or PRs for them now won't do anything useful for you, because these RFCs were published. But you can see there were thousands of commits, one of the last being Martin Thompson's minor typographical tweaks summarised as "DOES IT NEVER END?!?".
- cesarb 5y agoThese face-to-face meetings are probably the IETF meetings (https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/ https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/), which seem to be around 3 per year (https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/past/ https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/past/), plus a few extra quic-specific meetings (https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/interim/ https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/interim/).
- mnot 5y agosee https://github.com/quicwg/wg-materials/ https://github.com/quicwg/wg-materials/