Two important notes:
1) It is not *possible* to write a document that everyone agrees with. This draft is based on a considered judgment of what's best for the IETF, after reading and thinking about all your comments. Thank you!
2) There are important parts of the RFC publication process that are NOT described here, because they are outside of IESG scope, such as the criteria and the review mechanisms the RFC Editor uses, or indeed whether independent submissions should be published or not. These are proper material for discussion with the RFC Editor, the IAB and the NEWTRK WG. But their omission from this document is NOT an accident.
Unless this document is found fatally flawed in some way, I intend to ask for a 4-week Last Call for BCP this week.
Thank you all for your review, and keep them coming!
Harald
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Internet Engineering Steering Group Working Group of the IETF.
Title : The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures Author(s) : H. Alvestrand Filename : draft-iesg-rfced-documents-01.txt Pages : 7 Date : 2004-4-9 This document gives the IESG's procedures for handling documents submitted for RFC publication via the RFC Editor, subsequent to the changes proposed by the IESG at the Seoul IETF, March 2004.
NOTE IN DRAFT: These guidelines are proposed, not adopted. Comments are welcome - please send them to iesg@xxxxxxxxx
A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iesg-rfced-documents-01.txt