Re: Proposed resolution of the AD-shepherded info/experimentalnon-WG document issue

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

I conclude that we do not have full consensus of the IESG on my proposed 
text. So I'm adding this to the telechat agenda; the draft of the IESG 
charter will go out with my proposed text and a "the IESG is discussing" 
note.

IESG secretary: Please place the following on the next telechat agenda 
under "management items":

Item name: AD-shepherded non-WG Info/Experimental documents

Writeup to be included in package:

RFC 2026 suggests that Info/Experimental non-WG documents "should" come to 
the IESG via the RFC Editor. We've had some exceptions to this; we need to 
describe what we do in such a way that the community knows what to expect.

Suggested texts for a policy:

1)

	    When an AD decides that an Informational or
           Experimental document is of particular importance to the
           community, the AD may also choose to put it directly
           before the IESG. This document will then be processed in
           the same fashion as an Informational or Experimental
           document from a working group.

2)

   In some cases, an individual will ask an AD directly if they are
   willing to shepherd a document through the IESG. This can happen,
   for example, when an individual has already been discussing a
   particular document with an AD because the topic of the document
   naturally falls into a particular area. In such cases, the
   document is processed in the same fashion as an Informational or
   Experimental document from a working group.



                Harald