Technical Summary
This document describes a set of procedures under which a working group
chair or secretary serves as the primary Document Shepherd for a document
that has been submitted to the IESG for publication. Before this, the
shepherding role has traditionally been filled by the Area Director
responsible for the working group.
Working Group Summary
This document was developed by the PROTO team.
Protocol Quality
Reviewed by Brian Carpenter for the IESG. The procedures
described have been in use for a year or two and have been
updated according to experience.
Note to RFC Editor
Please change running title in page headers:
OLD
Document Shepherding to IESG Approval
NEW
Document Shepherding to Publication
Before the last sentence of Section 1, please insert:
NEW:
Section 4 covers IANA actions and Section 5 discusses
shepherding after IESG approval.