SM: >> 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@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2012-10-23. Exceptionally, comments may be > > This Last Call is highly unusual. If the changes that are accepted is a matter of author discretion, why is there a Last Call and what is the role of the IESG here? Since the document is about one person's opinion on IETF process, I felt it useful to bring the document to the attention of the community. Others may agree or disagree. Hopefully it will spur discussion. Perhaps it will spur a group to propose a change to the process. After the Last Call, the IESG will make a decision about publication of this document as an IETF Stream RFC. Russ