Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication
RFC 4858
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(May 2007; No errata)
Was draft-ietf-proto-wgchair-doc-shepherding (individual in gen area)
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Authors | Allison Mankin , Lars Eggert , David Meyer , Henrik Levkowetz | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 4858 (Informational) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Brian Carpenter | ||
Send notices to | margaret@thingmagic.com |
Network Working Group H. Levkowetz Request for Comments: 4858 Ericsson Category: Informational D. Meyer Cisco/University of Oregon L. Eggert Nokia A. Mankin May 2007 Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007). Abstract This document describes methodologies that have been designed to improve and facilitate IETF document flow processing. It specifies 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 Area Director responsible for the working group has traditionally filled the shepherding role. Levkowetz, et al. Informational [Page 1] RFC 4858 Document Shepherding to Publication May 2007 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Process Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.1. Document Shepherd Write-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Document Shepherding during AD Evaluation . . . . . . . . 9 3.3. Document Shepherding during IESG Evaluation . . . . . . . 10 4. Shepherding the Document's IANA Actions . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5. Document Shepherding after IESG Approval . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6. When Not to Use the Document Shepherding Process . . . . . . . 15 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 9. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Appendix A. Example Document Announcement Write-Ups . . . . . . . 18 A.1. Example Document Announcement Write-Up for draft-ietf-avt-rtp-midi-format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 A.2. Example Document Announcement Write-Up for draft-ietf-imss-ip-over-fibre-channel . . . . . . . . . . 19 Levkowetz, et al. Informational [Page 2] RFC 4858 Document Shepherding to Publication May 2007 1. Introduction Early in 2004, the IESG undertook several experiments aimed at evaluating whether any of the proposed changes to the IETF document flow process would yield qualitative improvements in document throughput and quality. One such experiment, referred to as the "PROTO process" or "PROTO" (because it was created by the "PROcess and TOols" or PROTO [PROTO] team), is a set of methodologies designed to involve working group chairs or secretaries more directly in their documents' approval life cycle. In particular, the PROTO team focused on improvements to the part of a document's life cycle that occurs after the working group and document editor have forwarded it to the IESG for publication. By the end of 2004, the IESG had evaluated the utility of the PROTO methodologies based on data obtained through several pilot projects that had run throughout the year, and subsequently decided to adopt the PROTO process for all documents and working groups. This document describes this process. The methodologies developed and piloted by the PROTO team focus on the working group chair or secretary as the primary Document Shepherd. The primary objective of this document shepherding process is to improve document-processing throughput and document quality by enabling a partnership between the Responsible Area Director and the Document Shepherd. In particular, this partnership has the explicit goal of enfranchising the Document Shepherd while at the same time offloading a specific part of the follow-up work that has traditionally been responsibility of the Responsible Area Director. The Responsible Area Director has tens or many tens of documents to follow, while the Document Shepherd has only a few at a time. Flowing the responsibility to the working group level can ensure moreShow full document text