Keith -- I beg to differ. There are a number of other groups that
have considered taking their work to the IETF, but decided instead to
just use the IETF WG Processes, as described in the relevant RFCs.
Indeed they have. But that's orthogonal to the point I was making.
So, the answer is, if you want to do it the IETF way, then just use
the WG working rules, and take the results to the IETF when you are
done, if the results look good enough.
No, that would be sheer lunacy. Because it's quite often the case
that such work:
- either doesn't consider the problem from enough different points
of view, or
- suffers from a lack of technical competence, or
- was actually developed in a (semi-)closed environment in order
to favor certain stakeholders over others
It's one thing to say that other groups would do well to use certain
parts of the IETF process, quite another to say that IETF should
endorse the work of other groups.
Keith