[Atoca] ATOCA chairs - IETF process being violated?

["James M. Polk" <[e-mail]>]

ATOCA chairs

I'm personally glad this WG formed.

That said, one WG item was submitted today and I can't seem to find 
in the list archives any call for the WG to approve of any WG level documents.

The WG was announced in this message (from Aug 17th)
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/earlywarning/current/msg00358.html

Martin, as one of two WG chairs, you welcomed all of us to the WG Sept 1st
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/earlywarning/current/msg00359.html

Martin, you're initial non-welcome message (Sept 14th) talked about 
Beijing meeting slots
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/earlywarning/current/msg00360.html
and said this:

"
We're expecting to spend some time on the following drafts:

   draft-rosen-atoca-cap
   draft-rosen-atoca-server-discovery
   draft-schulzrinne-atoca-requirements
"

that meeting agenda thread continued until the first WG item was 
submitted (Sept 24th) without the WG ever having a say in whether or 
not this ID was good or bad to adopt
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/earlywarning/current/msg00377.html

The very next message to this list (Oct 1st) had a rough agenda
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/earlywarning/current/msg00378.html
that didn't even mention draft-ietf-atoca-cap-00.txt

Now on Oct 18th, draft-ietf-atoca-cap-00.txt is submitted - again 
without the proper (or even a mention of) list discussion about 
whether this ID is a good thing for the WG to adopt or not.

Common guys - we can't start the WG by willfully violating IETF WG 
process like this! One of the two of you (chairs) is new, so this 
isn't really a surprise, but one of you authored one of the core IETF 
process documents (RFC 2418), so there's less tolerance here.

This cannot be tolerated and each of these documents need to be 
rescinded (i.e., taken out of the ID repository) until the WG 
approves them. I mean, there hasn't even been a face-to-face meeting 
to have voices say yes or no (hums one way or the other or ever 
thumbs pointed up or down). There's been nothing within this WG to 
justify these two IDs being WG items yet.

There's still time (6.5 hours) to have each resubmitted as individual 
IDs and us discuss them properly in Beijing, and maybe even indicate 
there that these should be put to the ATOCA list for WG 
consideration. Before this happens, these two IDs aren't properly WG items.

James