Re: [Rgchairs] thoughs about the IRTF

Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Thu, 04 November 2004 12:50 UTC

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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:35:49 +0100
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
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Subject: Re: [Rgchairs] thoughs about the IRTF
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I think the point has been made eminently clear now that it makes sense to 
formalize and document the way the IRTF handles documents - if the IAB and 
the RG chairs don't know what the current process is, how can anyone 
else.....?

The point that I see in some need of clarification still is the approval 
process for RG draft publication - should there be some explicit IRTF 
signoff (IRTF chair, IRSG or RG chair seem some possible candidates to give 
it) and have the drafts enter the RFC Editor's queue at the same point as 
IETF drafts, or should they come straight from the RG and enter (as today) 
as individual submissions?

When we reach this stage in other process discussions, I tend to say "do we 
have a volunteer to document this approach as an I-D?" - is that an 
appropriate thing to call for here, Vern?

(see <ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-editor/rfc-editor-process.gif> 
for the flowchart I'm thinking about)

                   Harald

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