Subject: Re: [edu-team] Tutorials for IETF 84 Vancouver

From: Alice Russo <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:05:25 -0400

On Apr 20, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:

> 2. Tools Tutorial (Henrik, Alice)
>  Alice, you said in Paris that you are working on this together with some other people, right?

Yes, spoke with Henrik about this briefly and will coordinate with him further. It would primarily be a demo, perhaps using HTML iframes so it's a sequence of pages that each contain the page being demo'd (rather than a sequence of slides).

Thought of collecting a list of favorite IETF tools-related "tips & tricks" from some IETFers to make sure useful ones are demo'd in the tutorial. Input welcome.

Previously, I wrote:

How about a new 'Introduction to IETF Tools' (last given at IETF 69 by Henrik -http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/07jul/slides/ToolsTut-0.pdf) to help a newer IETFer make use of the tools out there?  It could be an overview of what's available and a demo of the essentials. It could be organized into topics similar to tools.ietf.org main page, and hopefully created/presented with the help of the tools team. For rough example:

1) Prepare documents
- [briefly] xml2rfc / NroffEdit / Word template 
- I-D nits
- I-D Submission Tool

2) Search and view documents
- Datatracker basics
- tools.ietf.org HTML versions
- Retrieve from search bar (IETF Doc Fetch)
- Diff tool options

3) Be aware and communicate
- Daily Dose
- using WG wikis
- using email aliases
- RSS feeds available

4) Follow an IETF meeting
- agendas available
- apps available
- remote participation

5) Formal languages / compliance
- where to find ABNF parsers, MIB review tools
- validate the signature of an I-D

Thanks,
Alice