The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Document Shepherding Throughout a Document's Lifecycle' <draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd-00.txt> as Informational RFC The author is documenting his own opinion, and he is presenting that opinion to the community for consideration. The author is not proposing any formal change, but he is interested in community comments. Since this is the authors opinions, changes to the document based on received comments be at the author's discretion. As a result, the finished document will not claim to reflect IETF community consensus. 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 2012-10-23. 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 RFC 4858 talks about "Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication". There's a significant part of a document's life that happens before working group last call, starting, really, at the time a working group begins discussing a version of the idea that's been posted as an individual draft. It seems reasonable and helpful to begin shepherding when there's a call for adoption as a working group document, and this document gives one Area Director's view of how that extended shepherding function might work, and what tasks might be involved throughout the document's lifecycle. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
