Technical Summary
This document is the author's opinion of how the document shepherding
function described in RFC 4858 can be extended through the full life
of a document, providing a single person (a working group chair or
someone who works under the delegation and supervision of a chair) who
is responsible for keeping discussion and development of the document
moving, and avoiding deadlocks and stalling. This document proposes
no formal change and, as one person's opinion, is presented as an
Informational document.
Working Group Summary
This document is not the product of any IETF WG.
Document Quality
The author posted a note about this document to the IETF discussion
list, and he asked for comments. No comments were posted to the list,
but there was one private comment suggesting that the name of the
function be changed from "document shepherd", to avoid confusion with
the function presented in RFC 4858, which has been formally adopted.
The author disagrees with this change; he explicitly wants to view
this as a broadening of the document shepherd function. The author's
use of the same name is quite intentional.
Personnel
Russ Housley is the responsible AD.
Murray S. Kucherawy is the document shepherd.
Note to Reviewers
The author is documenting his own opinion, and he is presenting that
opinion to the community for consideration. The author is not
proposing any formal change, but he is interested in community
comments. Since this is the authors opinions, changes to the document
based on received comments be at the author's discretion. As a
result, the finished document will not claim to reflect IETF community
consensus.