I've posted my thoughts on starting document shepherding at the time a
document first starts its life in a working group, and on the tasks a
shepherd might perform at each stage in the document's life. I intend
to pursue having this published as an Informational document, not a
BCP, reflecting my personal opinion. That said, I'm interested in
comments, and might make changes accordingly.
Barry
Filename: draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd
Revision: 00
Title: Document Shepherding Throughout a Document's Lifecycle
Creation date: 2012-08-02
WG ID: Individual Submission
Number of pages: 24
URL:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd-00.txt
Status:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd
Htmlized:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-leiba-extended-doc-shepherd-00
Abstract:
RFC 4858 talks about "Document Shepherding from Working Group Last
Call to Publication". There's a significant part of a document's
life that happens before working group last call, starting, really,
at the time a working group begins discussing a version of the idea
that's been posted as an individual draft. It seems reasonable and
helpful to begin shepherding when there's a call for adoption as a
working group document, and this document gives one Area Director's
view of how that extended shepherding function might work, and what
tasks might be involved throughout the document's lifecycle.