RFC 2418 (rfc2418) - Page 2 of 26
IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures
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RFC 2418 Working Group Guidelines September 1998 4. Working Group Termination ..................................... 15 5. Rechartering a Working Group .................................. 15 6. Staff Roles ................................................... 16 6.1. WG Chair .................................................. 16 6.2. WG Secretary .............................................. 18 6.3. Document Editor ........................................... 18 6.4. WG Facilitator ............................................ 18 6.5. Design teams .............................................. 19 6.6. Working Group Consultant .................................. 19 6.7. Area Director ............................................. 19 7. Working Group Documents ....................................... 19 7.1. Session documents ......................................... 19 7.2. Internet-Drafts (I-D) ..................................... 19 7.3. Request For Comments (RFC) ................................ 20 7.4. Working Group Last-Call ................................... 20 7.5. Submission of documents ................................... 21 8. Review of documents ........................................... 21 9. Security Considerations ....................................... 22 10. Acknowledgments .............................................. 23 11. References ................................................... 23 12. Editor's Address ............................................. 23 Appendix: Sample Working Group Charter .......................... 24 Full Copyright Statement ......................................... 26 1. Introduction The Internet, a loosely-organized international collaboration of autonomous, interconnected networks, supports host-to-host communication through voluntary adherence to open protocols and procedures defined by Internet Standards. There are also many isolated interconnected networks, which are not connected to the global Internet but use the Internet Standards. Internet Standards are developed in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This document defines guidelines and procedures for IETF working groups. The Internet Standards Process of the IETF is defined in [1]. The organizations involved in the IETF Standards Process are described in [2] as are the roles of specific individuals. The IETF is a large, open community of network designers, operators, vendors, users, and researchers concerned with the Internet and the technology used on it. The primary activities of the IETF are performed by committees known as working groups. There are currently more than 100 working groups. (See the IETF web page for an up-to- date list of IETF Working Groups - http://www.ietf.org.) Working groups tend to have a narrow focus and a lifetime bounded by the completion of a specific set of tasks, although there are exceptions. Bradner Best Current Practice
