Who is shepherd for an individual submission? Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Hutzelman" <jhutz@xxxxxxx> To: "Sam Hartman" <hartmans-ietf@xxxxxxx>; "Henrik Levkowetz" <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Frank Ellermann" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx>; "Jeffrey Hutzelman" <jhutz@xxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 3:31 AM Subject: Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes > > > On Friday, January 12, 2007 04:04:08 PM -0500 Sam Hartman > <hartmans-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Let me ask a silly question here: Why do we want to distinguish proto > > shepherds from chairs? I at least hope all my WGs will produce > > documents. That means most of my chairs will be proto shepherds. > > Does the difference matter? > > I guess that depends on how much you want to depend on access controls vs > people not doing things they're not supposed to. I believe the process > admits the occasional shepherd who is not a chair or AD; if nothing else, I > could imagine a chair who steps down but continues to shepherd his > documents which are already partway through the process. Certainly not > every chair will shepherd every document produced by his WG. > > So, a WG chair has certain rights with respect to documents in his WG. And > a shepherd has certain rights with respect to documents he shepherds. The > question is, is the difference great enough that we can't simply give all > of those people the same powers, at least with respect to any given WG? > > Note that even if we just give all the shepherding powers to chairs, we > still may need the concept of a shepherd who is not a chair, because I > presume the tracker will inherit its idea of who is chair of what from > other sources. It may be desirable, both here and in other cases, to be > able to give someone some of the bits that go along with a role without > actually publishing their name as a point of contact. Having that ability > encourages people to delegate authorization instead of giving away their > credentials. > > -- Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf