PROTO Team Update
PROTO
•Process and Tools Team
–Needs a page, proto.ietf.org
–Has a charter but hard to find at IETF sitecurrently
•PROTO working group shepherding
–draft-ietf-proto-wgchair-doc-shepherding-05.txt
–operational guide
–in play by many chairs, in all areas
–revision based on experience is upcoming
PROTO Experience
•Use of the guideline began over a yearago
•We have asked for comments on theexperience
Comments (not verbatim)
•Questionnaire is wonderful; causes thequality of the documents to go up
•The process increases the skill of theChairs and the transparency of theIESG
•On straightforward documents helps agreat deal; on complex documents mayintroduce some noise
More comments
•Issues raised in the questionnaire were highvalue to the working groups
•It is hard to completely evaluate PROTOshepherding before the working group chairscan use the tracker
•It would be helpful for PROTO shepherds tobe able to indicate that a document is not inAD Followup but in WG Followup
More?
•There were more, but limited time…
•Please send your comments of any kind
•A quantitative point, presentedqualitatively
–Individual area directors reportedDiscusses resolving more quickly
–Independent measurements showed signsof more work to do on this
Next Steps
•Team is starting to think about working groupchair access to the tracker
–This will be an active discussion with thecommunity
•More feedback from the PROTO shepherdingdesired
•PROTO team interested in usage aspects ofprocesses and tools, e.g. how we movedagenda, presentations and proceedings fromemail to upload this meeting
PROTO Team
•Allison Mankin, Margaret Wasserman,chairs
•Bill Fenner
•Barbara Fuller
•Henrik Levkowetz
•Dave Meyer
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