Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Barnes
Request for Comments: 6385 Polycom
Category: Informational A. Doria
ISSN: 2070-1721 Research Consultant
H. Alvestrand
Google
B. Carpenter
University of Auckland
October 2011
General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) Experiences
Abstract
The General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) has been doing reviews of
Internet-Drafts (I-Ds) since 2004. This document discusses the
experience and the lessons learned over the past 7 years of this
process. The review team initially reviewed the I-Ds before each of
the IESG telechats. Since late 2005, review team members have been
assigned to review I-Ds during IETF Last Call, unless no IETF Last
Call is necessary for the I-D. The same reviewer then reviews any
updates when the I-D is placed on an IESG telechat agenda.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6385.
Barnes, et al. Informational [Page 1]RFC 6385 Gen-ART October 2011Copyright Notice
Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
(http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of
publication of this document. Please review these documents
carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect
to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must
include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of
the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as
described in the Simplified BSD License.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. Who Are the Gen-ART Members? ....................................3
3. Goals of Gen-ART ................................................3
4. Gen-ART Reviews .................................................4
4.1. IETF Last Call Review Process ..............................4
4.2. IESG Telechat Review Process ...............................5
4.3. Form of Review .............................................5
4.4. Gen-ART Process Overview ...................................8
5. Secretarial Process ............................................10
5.1. Maintaining Review Spreadsheet ............................10
5.2. Last Call Assignment Procedure ............................12
5.3. Telechat Assignment Procedure .............................13
5.4. Capturing Reviews .........................................14
6. Results ........................................................14
7. Impressions ....................................................15
7.1. Reviewers' Impressions ....................................15
7.2. General Area Directors' Impressions .......................17
7.3. Gen-ART Secretaries' Impressions ..........................18
8. Needed Improvements ............................................18
9. Applicability ..................................................20
10. Security Considerations .......................................20
11. Acknowledgments ...............................................20
12. Informative References ........................................21
1. Introduction
The General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) was created personally by the
General Area Director in 2004. This document discusses the
experiences and the lessons learned as the process has evolved over
the past 7 years. The process described in this document reflects
that which was in place at the time this document was published.
datatracker.ietf.org