Working Group
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The Working Group chair is responsible for documenting the specific
implementations which qualify the specification for Draft or Internet
Standard ...
... research effort (e.g., a Research Group of the IRTF), an IETF Working
Group, or it may be an individual contribution.
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Unless they are the result of IETF Working Group action, documents
intended to be published with Experimental or Informational status
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Documents proposed for Experimental and Informational RFCs by IETF
Working Groups go through IESG review. The review is initiated using
the process described in section 6.1.1.
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A standards action is initiated by a recommendation by the IETF
Working group responsible for a specification to its Area Director,
copied to the IETF Secretariat ...
... copied to the IETF Secretariat or, in the case of a specification not
associated with a Working Group, a recommendation by an individual to
the IESG.
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... The Last-Call period shall be no shorter than two weeks except in
those cases where the proposed standards action was not initiated by
an IETF Working Group, in which case the Last-Call period shall be no
shorter than four weeks. If the IESG believes that the community
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... IESG recommendation. In addition, the IESG may decide to recommend
the formation of a new Working Group in the case of significant
controversy in response to a Last-Call for specification not
originating from an IETF Working Group ...
... Working Group in the case of significant
controversy in response to a Last-Call for specification not
originating from an IETF Working Group.
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... opportunity to comment. This provision is not intended to threaten a
legitimate and active Working Group effort, but rather to provide an
administrative mechanism for terminating a moribund effort.
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... notification procedures used for any
other standards action. A request to retire an existing standard can
originate from a Working Group, an Area Director or some other
interested party.
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... Internet standards issues that cannot be resolved through the normal
processes whereby IETF Working Groups and other Internet Standards
Process participants ordinarily reach consensus.
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... Working Group Disputes ...
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An individual (whether a participant in the relevant Working Group or
not) may disagree with a Working Group recommendation based on his or
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... An individual (whether a participant in the relevant Working Group or
not) may disagree with a Working Group recommendation based on his or
her belief that either (a) his or her own views have not been
adequately considered by the Working Group ...
... Working Group recommendation based on his or
her belief that either (a) his or her own views have not been
adequately considered by the Working Group, or (b) the Working Group
has made an incorrect technical choice which places the quality
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... her belief that either (a) his or her own views have not been
adequately considered by the Working Group, or (b) the Working Group
has made an incorrect technical choice which places the quality
and/or integrity ...
... has made an incorrect technical choice which places the quality
and/or integrity of the Working Group's product(s) in significant
jeopardy. The first issue is a difficulty with Working Group
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... integrity of the Working Group's product(s) in significant
jeopardy. The first issue is a difficulty with Working Group
process; the latter is an assertion of technical error. These two
types of disagreement are quite different, but both are handled by
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A person who disagrees with a Working Group recommendation shall
always first discuss the matter with the Working Group's chair ...
... A person who disagrees with a Working Group recommendation shall
always first discuss the matter with the Working Group's chair(s),
who may involve other members of the Working Group ...
... Working Group's chair(s),
who may involve other members of the Working Group (or the Working
Group as a whole) in the discussion.
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... chair(s),
who may involve other members of the Working Group (or the Working
Group as a whole) in the discussion.
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... If the disagreement cannot be resolved in this way, any of the
parties involved may bring it to the attention of the Area
Director(s) for the area in which the Working Group is chartered.
The Area Director(s) shall attempt to resolve the dispute.
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An IETF Working Group may start from an external specification and
develop it into an Internet ...
... develop it into an Internet specification. This is acceptable if (1)
the specification is provided to the Working Group in compliance with
the requirements of section 10, and (2) change control ...
... IETF, the IESG, the IAB, all IETF Working
Groups, and the Internet Society Board of Trustees.
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For IETF and Working Group meetings announcements shall be made by
electronic mail to the IETF ...
... IETF Secretariat, and is the
responsibility of the IETF Secretariat except that each IETF Working
Group is expected to maintain their own email list archive and must
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... traffic is captured and
included in the archives. Also, the Working Group chair is
responsible for providing the IETF Secretariat ...
... responsible for providing the IETF Secretariat with complete and
accurate minutes of all Working Group meetings. Internet-Drafts that
have been removed ...
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Upon the recommendation of the responsible IETF Working Group (or, if
no Working Group is constituted, upon the recommendation of an ad hoc
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... Upon the recommendation of the responsible IETF Working Group (or, if
no Working Group is constituted, upon the recommendation of an ad hoc
committee), the IESG ...
... distributing technology based upon the specific specification(s)
under openly specified, reasonable, non-discriminatory terms.
The Working Group proposing the use of the technology with respect
to which the proprietary rights are claimed may assist the IETF
Executive Director ...
... the IETF processes belongs to the many members of the various
incarnations of the POISED Working Group.
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... management division within the IETF. An Area consists
of Working Groups related to a general topic such as routing. An
Area is managed by one or two Area Directors ...
... Working Group ...