At 08:24 29-11-2012, George, Wes wrote:
adoption), let's do that. If we actively *don't* want an IETF-wide
procedure here, we can even document that the process for WG
adoption of drafts is WG-specific and could document those specifics
in a WG policies wiki document maintained by the chairs. There are
plenty of WGs that have specific ways that they like to handle
document submission, reviews, and requests for agenda time. It might
be useful to have that all in one place so that people can know
what's expected of them.
There is a wiki for WG Chairs. Melinda Shore posted some comments on
this list several months ago. She followed up and added material to
the wiki [1]. There must be over a hundred WG Chairs. Only a
handful of them have bothered to add material to the wiki.
[WEG] Barry, I respectfully disagree. The whole point I'm making
here (and Geoff underscored nicely) is that it's currently too
variable and too reliant on a small group of individual volunteers
implementing it correctly. When things are not documented, we
The problem which Geoff Huston commented about might have occurred in
a working group within the Routing Area.
According to some RFC:
"All relevant documents to be discussed at a session should be published
and available as Internet-Drafts at least two weeks before
a session starts."
If the above was followed there shouldn't be any draft submissions
during the week a meeting is held. The following working groups
posted drafts during that period:
DHC
BMWG
MPLS
TSVWG
MMUSIC
CODEC
6MAN
MANET
HIP
APPSAWG
P2PSIP
SAVI
DIME
DNSOP
OAUTH
IDR
SIPREC
SIPCORE
L2VPN
FECFRAME
MILE
EAI
STRAW
PRECIS
XMPP
JOSE
PCP
URNBIS
LISP
NFSV4
MBONED
SIPCLF
OPSEC
TRILL
CCAMP
MIF
REPUTE
ECRIT
PAWS
At 11:45 29-11-2012, Melinda Shore wrote:
box. I'll note that it seems possible that overspecifying process
could potentially cause more protests rather than fewer.
Yes. Section 6.5.1 of a document, which everyone claims to have read
and understood, spells out what people should do if they want to protest.
Regards,
-sm
1. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg75826.html