& the Early Copy-Editing Experiment

September – October 2005

techspec BoF

November 9, 2005

Alice Hagens

The Process

• Read through and mark. • Insert edits into xml.• Tag questions for authors and major revisions.• Use xml2rfc to generate text.• Use htmlwdiff to generate diff.• Email revised xml and diff to Bert, authors, WG

chairs, and ADs.• Answer questions and read comments from

authors.

& the Early Copy-Editing Experiment

# Document Pages Hours Pages/

Hour

Changes Notes to the Author

1 draft-ietf-secsh-publickey-subsystem-04

18 2 9 Few 0

2 draft-ietf-aaa-diameter-sip-app-08

79 14 5.6 Lots 3 in xml, 3 in email

3 draft-ietf-sip-gruu-05 41 8 5.1 Lots 11 in xml

4 draft-ietf-mobike-protocol-03

30 3 10 Few 0

5 draft-ietf-adslmib-adsl2-03

160 10 16* Few 3 in xml

6 draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-exprmntl-02

26 7 3.7** Moderate 2 in xml

* faster because in MIBs, we only edit DESCRIPTION clauses.** slower because of (1) familiarizing myself with xml formatting of blank lines, i.e.,

where to insert vspace to get a blank line when using nested lists and (2) looking at diffs due to version submission confusion

Remaining Measurements

• Time & changes when doc comes into the queue

• Issues not resolved in exchanges with author/editors during early copy-editing stage

• AUTH48 progress