Re: PROTO Process

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

Mary,

> I agree with Bert and I follow a very similar model as shepherd.  The 
> gap I see in the process is that the actual shepherd doesn't typically 
> appear on the IESG telechat agendas - i.e., chairs typically do the 
> PROTO write-up and then for my WG, the AD generally takes the lead 
> from there, so there is definitely the potential for the shepherds to 
> get left out of the loop. And, this lack of identification of the 
> shepherd applies to the majority of the documents on the IESG 
> agendas.  However, most folks are conscientious enough to copy WG 
> chairs, who should provide the info to the Shepherd, if it's someone 
> other than the chairs. 

The tracker fills in the e-mail address for the WG chairs automatically 
in the e-mail notification field. This works well as long as the 
shepherd is a WG chair. As a result, we typically no longer label agenda 
entries with the shepherd's name. It is still recorded in the writeup 
(typically the first entry in the tracker log).

Jari