I've posted my thoughts on starting document shepherding at the time a document first starts its life in a working group, and on the tasks a shepherd might perform at each stage in the document's life. I intend to pursue having this published as an Informational document, not a BCP, reflecting my personal opinion. That said, I'm interested in comments, and might make changes accordingly. Barry > Filename: draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd > Revision: 00 > Title: Document Shepherding Throughout a Document's Lifecycle > Creation date: 2012-08-02 > WG ID: Individual Submission > Number of pages: 24 > URL: > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd-00.txt > Status: > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd > Htmlized: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd-00 > > > 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.