On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Spencer Dawkins at IETF <
spencerdawkins(_dot_)ietf(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 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