The current CLA submission process is described here: http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#cla-registration
I'd like to make a suggestion that emails be sent to people to submitting iCLAs so that they have idea of the status of their submission. I'd suggest sending emails when an iCLA has been received, when it has been acknowledged and finally when it has been registered. This would improve the process and avoid emails in the podling mailing lists asking about the status of individual iCLA submissions. I've just submitted an iCLA via email and I have no way to check its status besides looking at the Committers' page ( http://people.apache.org/~jim/committers.html) on a daily basis. Thanks. Dick
