The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication ' <draft-ietf-proto-wgchair-doc-shepherding-09.txt> as an Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Brian Carpenter. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-proto-wgchair-doc-shepherding-09.txt 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. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce