John Klensin and I wrote a draft on lightweight process experiments,
and would like to get other people's feedback before requesting last
call for publication as a BCP.
The abstract is
In the last two years, the IETF has initiated a number of
interrelated efforts to improve or fine-tune its standards process
and its internal procedures using the procedures intended for
development of protocol specifications. None of these efforts has
had an observable impact on the quality or timeliness of IETF
outputs, and, based on the proposed charter milestones now under
discussion, approval to try to improve things is still between six
and eighteen months away. This document proposes a radically
different approach to the system of making changes to IETF process,
one that relies heavily on a "propose and carry out an experiment,
evaluate the experiment, and then establish permanent procedures
based on operational experience" model rather than the ones that
have
been attempted previously.
The announcement is at
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-announce/Current/msg29188.html.
The draft itself is at
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klensin-process-july14-01.txt.
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Thanks,
Spencer, for John and Spencer