IESG Process and Tools (PROTO) Team

 

 

The Process and Tools (PROTO) Team is an IESG-driven activity focused  on improving the work flow (e.g. speed) of approval of documents, and the tools that support this work flow.  The PROTO team will advise the IESG on how to improve the scalability, openness and overall effectiveness of the document procedures and tools. 

 

 

Team Members:

  • Aaron Falk
  • Bill Fenner (IESG)
  • Barbara Fuller (IETF Secretariat)
  • Henrik Levkowetz
  • David Meyer

 

Team members were selected from community volunteers by the team leaders.

 

Team Leaders:

·      Allison Mankin mankin@psg.com

·      Margaret Wasserman margaret@thingmagic.com

 

PROTO Team Mailing List: proto-team@ietf.org

 

PROTO Team Tasks:

 

The IESG has asked the PROTO team as its first task to consider what procedures and tools will allow WG Chairs to shepherd documents throughout the later stages of the document handling process.  At present, WG Chairs shepherd documents during the earlier stages of the document lifecycle, in the WG after IESG approval of document milestones.  The IESG believes that an experiment to allow WG Chairs to shepherd documents after they have been submitted to the IESG for publication (when currently the AD takes over) will have several benefits, including:

 

  • WGs could have increased visibility and control of their documents in the later stages.
  • Documents could make it through the approval process faster.

 

This speedup could come because of the distribution of the shepherding effort amongst a larger group of people, alleviating overloading and some bottlenecks. The speedup could also come because of natural prioritization of each shepherded document in the WG's task set.

 

The PROTO team will publish a document describing more detailed plans, and will provide experiment reports for the community's interest and review on this web site as available.  The goal of the PROTO team is to accomplish results from this shepherding experiment by the San Diego IETF meeting (Summer 2004).

 

PROTO Team Work Items: