The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force' <draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt> as Informational RFC The Tao of the IETF has grown a bit stale. For example, many of the tasks that were requested by email are now done with online tools, completely avoiding manual intervention by the Secretariat. This is an effort to refresh the document. The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2012-06-27. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document describes the inner workings of IETF meetings and Working Groups, discusses organizations related to the IETF, and introduces the standards process. It is not a formal IETF process document but instead an informational overview. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hoffman-tao4677bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hoffman-tao4677bis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.