Hi,
Two small comments, based on observations in TCPM. Obviously, this draft cannot handle all WG specifics, but maybe my two remarks also apply to other WGs...
First, the document could perhaps mention that during the adoption of a draft there can be a discussion about the planned status (e.g., STD vs. EXP), even if the status can change later in the process. In TCPM, this is almost always the case, and therefore the chairs have to consider the planned status as one question when creating/adopting a WG draft.
Second, I am not sure if the following statement in Section 2.2 could be detailed a bit:
* Is there strong working group support for working on the draft?
Actually, in TCPM, the "working group support for working on the draft" is often not the most important criteria for adoption. The key one is the more specific question whether there indeed "working group energy for contributing and reviewing". For instance, sometimes, we have the following situation: The community really likes a new, interesting idea, and the WG therefore really wants that "somebody" works out all the nasty protocol details that a full spec would require. This is typically left to the authors of the individual document proposing this idea. Yet, since TCPM deals with a core Internet protocol, having a WG document also implies that the WG should indeed verify this spec, e.g., in all the corner cases that can occur in a complex protocol. And, surprise, surprise, finding volunteers for that is often more difficult than finding people that really like an idea and want the WG to work on it... As a result, the chairs have to think about the completion of any new WG document quite a bit in advance...
If this effect should exist in other WGs as well, maybe one could add some additional explanation regarding the "willingness to contribute and review" to a new WG document. It could also relate to Section 4 as one aspect of document "maturity".
Thanks
Michael
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The productive output of an IETF working group is documents, as
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