I personally believe that while strongly recommending to the WG chairs to adopt the concept we should leave the implementation up to each of them without much formalization and process building. Let us not forget that we will have a variety of WGs from large WGs meeting the first time with a lot of new participants to small WGs at their 20th or 40th meeting with a handful of new participants and anything in the middle. Let us experiment at the next IETF and get back with reports (can be on the wgchairs list as well). Regards, Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: John C Klensin [mailto:john-ietf@xxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 4:43 PM > To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan); Ted Lemon; Mary Barnes > Cc: <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; IETF-Discussion list; The IESG; Shida > Schubert > Subject: RE: Mentoring > > > > --On Thursday, 14 March, 2013 14:07 +0000 "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" > <dromasca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I like it a lot! > > > > Starting with IETF-87 I will reserve a breakfast slot for the WG I am > > co-chairing and invite (in advance, the week before the meeting) the > > new attendees interested in this WG to attend. > > Ok, three suggestions: > > (1) We should start working, now or next week, on an informational > packet for newcomers. There should be a link to it in the registration > acknowledgment if someone checks "first-time attendee" or its equivalent > and it should be handed to the newcomers in paper form when they pick up > registration materials (not put on a table somewhere, or accessed > through a link, but handed to them with their badges). > > (2) The online registration materials should say, explicitly and ideally > in response to someone's identifying themselves as a newcomer, that, if > there are particular WGs they are interested in, they should > > -- join the WG mailing list immediately, rather than > waiting for the meeting > -- send mail to the WG chair(s) or designee introducing > themselves. > > Of course, that requires that we tell them how to do those things. > > (3) I'd like to see a slot on the WG page (charter page maybe) that > identifies the newcomer-welcomer for the WG. By default, that ought to > be the first-listed WG Chair. That might provide lots of incentive for > delegation, but that is good too. The welcomer might merely be a human > mentor-pointer, but that is ok too. The point is that every WG should > have someone explicitly responsible for being a newcomer contact point > and we shouldn't automatically stick the WG Chair(s) with the job. > > john >