Shepherds and individual submissions (Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes)

[Jari Arkko <jari.arkko at piuha.net>]

Brian, Tom,
>> Who is shepherd for an individual submission?
>
> The sponsoring AD. However, draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines
> (which will be updated shortly, so don't worry about
> its terminology issues) adds:
>
>    Once the AD has agreed to sponsor a document, the authors need to
>    provide a write-up similar to PROTO team write-ups from WGs.
In general, the shepherding task falls on the AD if no
shepherd can be found in the particular situation,
such as when the WG chair for some reason cannot
take this role.

For individual submissions the same can be applied.
The situation is a bit more complicated, though, because
for WG submissions we most of the time have a neutral,
non-author person easily available, i.e., the WG chair.
In one recent case an individual submission fixed a bug
in the work of a WG that ceased to exist years ago; nevertheless,
we asked the ex-chair of that WG to act as a shepherd.
If something like that cannot be arranged I'm uncertain
what the best approach is. But in any case, the
AD sponsoring a document needs some background
information about the proposal, so that's why
sponsoring guidelines suggest that the authors
provide a write-up.

Jari


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