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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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html 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.
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