Requirements for a Working Group Charter Tool
RFC 6292
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(June 2011; Errata)
Updated by RFC 6433
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Author | Paul Hoffman | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
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Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6292 (Informational) | |
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Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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Responsible AD | Russ Housley | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) P. Hoffman Request for Comments: 6292 VPN Consortium Category: Informational June 2011 ISSN: 2070-1721 Requirements for a Working Group Charter Tool Abstract The IETF intends to provide a new tool to Area Directors for the creation, re-chartering, and closing of Working Groups. The tool will also allow the IETF community to view the status of the chartering process. This document describes the requirements for the proposed new tool, and it is intended as input to a later activity for the design and development of such a tool. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6292. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Hoffman Informational [Page 1] RFC 6292 WG Charter Tool Reqs June 2011 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1. WG Charter Process Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. General Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1. WG Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2. Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3. Naming of Charter Text Proposals . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.4. Wording of Announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.5. Access to the Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.6. Initializing the Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3. Creating and Rechartering WGs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1. Chartering a New WG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2. Rechartering an Existing WG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.3. Ballots for Charter Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4. Requesting the Closing of a WG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5. Searching, Comparing, and Tracking Charters . . . . . . . . . 9 5.1. Viewing and Searching the Charter Database . . . . . . . . 9 5.2. Seeing Differences between Versions of Pre-Approval Wordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.3. Tracking Charters with an Atom Feed . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Hoffman Informational [Page 2] RFC 6292 WG Charter Tool Reqs June 2011 1. Introduction [RFC2418] describes the guidelines and procedures for formation and operation of IETF Working Groups (WGs). Since the publication of RFC 2418 in 1998, the IETF has started many dozen new WGs, and has shut down many dozen. In that time, many WGs have had some (often dozens) changes to their charters. Today, virtually all of the tasks associated with creating, rechartering, and closing a WG are performed manually. An Area Director (AD) requests one of these actions by manually sending a message to the Secretariat's ticket system. A member of the Secretariat staff manually updates the internal Secretariat database and the IETF Datatracker, manually places the WG on the IESG teleconference agenda (when appropriate), and manually sends out all of the required messages and announcements.Show full document text