On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just piling in after Barry here ... and speaking as the AD who had the most recent ¨draft on a telechat agenda with consensus = unknown¨, but I'm hardly the only one.The field in the tracker is labeled ¨consensus¨, which is ambiguous but actually means ¨IETF consensus¨. So, it should be set after IETF Last Call.A fair number of the documents I've processed already had it set to ¨yes¨ when they were publication-requested, so that means the shepherd/working group chairs thought it meant ¨working group consensus¨.I believe - but Barry would know - that we've requested that the field label be changed to ¨IETF Consensus¨ in the datatracker.(I know we talked about that, but I don't know whether we've made the request yet)
I've set that field as a WG chair to indicate the document came from a consensus process, which I guess is the same thing, and would always be "Yes" for the product of a working group anyway. I've noticed though that I don't always have control over that field's contents anymore.
-MSK