Re: comments on WG rechartering procedures

[Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>]

One more thought on the WG chartering processes.

One of the final steps upon working group creation should be the
confirmation that the mailing list is being properly archived at the
IETF ftp site. E.g., see the text from 2418 quoted below. Since the
archive isn't set up until the WG officially exists, having the
secretariat confirm with the chairs that the group is being properly
archived seems a useful check as part of the formal process.

Thomas

>From RFC 2418:

   Mailing list
      An IETF working group MUST have a general Internet mailing list.
      Most of the work of an IETF working group will be conducted on the
      mailing list. The working group charter MUST include:

      1. The address to which a participant sends a subscription request
         and the procedures to follow when subscribing,

      2. The address to which a participant sends submissions and
         special procedures, if any, and

      3. The location of the mailing list archive. A message archive
         MUST be maintained in a public place which can be accessed via
         FTP or via the web.

         As a service to the community, the IETF Secretariat operates a
         mailing list archive for working group mailing lists. In order
         to take advantage of this service, working group mailing lists
         MUST include the address "wg_acronym-archive@lists.ietf.org"
         (where "wg_acronym" is the working group acronym) in the
         mailing list in order that a copy of all mailing list messages
         be recorded in the Secretariat's archive.  Those archives are
         located at ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf-mail-archive.  For
         robustness, WGs SHOULD maintain an additional archive separate
         from that maintained by the Secretariat.