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	Title		: A model for IETF Process Experiments
	Author(s)	: J. Klensin, S. Dawkins
	Filename	: draft-klensin-process-july14-01.txt
	Pages		: 15
	Date		: 2004-3-22
	
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.

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