Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                   P. Hoffman, Ed.
Request for Comments: 6722                                VPN Consortium
Obsoletes: 4677                                              August 2012
Category: Informational
ISSN: 2070-1721


            Publishing the "Tao of the IETF" as a Web Page

Abstract

  This document describes how the "Tao of the IETF", which has been
  published as a series of RFCs in the past, is instead being published
  as a web page.  It also contains the procedure for publishing and
  editing that web page.

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/rfc6722.

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1.  Introduction

  The "Tao of the IETF" ("Tao") describes the inner workings of IETF
  meetings and Working Groups, discusses organizations related to the
  IETF, and introduces the standards process.  It is not a formal IETF
  process document but instead an informational overview.  The Tao has
  traditionally been published as an RFC.  It has been published as
  RFCs 1391, 1539, 1718, and 3160; it is currently [RFC4677].

  At the time this document is published, there is a strong desire in
  the IETF community to turn the Tao into a web page that can be
  updated more easily.  This document describes that process.  At the
  same time, this document formally obsoletes the last version of the
  Tao that was published as an RFC because the last version, RFC 4677,
  is no longer considered the "latest" version of the Tao: the new web
  page is.

  This document contains the procedure agreed to by the IESG.  The Tao
  has traditionally been an IETF consensus document, which means that
  the IESG has had the final say about what the Tao contained before it
  was sent to the RFC Editor.  Thus, the IESG should have final say
  regarding what the Tao says when it is a web page.

2.  Procedure for Publishing and Editing the Tao

  The Tao is published at <http://www.ietf.org/tao.html> and
  <https://www.ietf.org/tao.html>.  The initial content for the Tao web
  page is based on a draft document that was meant to replace RFC 4677.

  The Tao is edited by one or more people as designated by the IESG.
  Suggestions for changes to the Tao are discussed on the
  [email protected] mailing list.

  The editor of the Tao decides which proposed changes should be
  submitted to the IESG for approval.  The editor publishes the
  proposed changes in a version at
  <http://www.ietf.org/tao-possible-revision.html>.  The IESG may
  accept as many of the proposed changes as it wishes.  The IESG then
  submits the changed version to the IETF Secretariat for publication
  on the IETF web page at the URLs given above.  The Tao editor and the
  IESG should confirm that the page appears on the web site as
  intended.

  Each version of the Tao has a visible timestamp near the beginning of
  the document.  All published versions are archived using URLs of the
  form <http://www.ietf.org/tao-archive/tao-YYYYMMDD.html>, and a list
  of the revisions is available at <http://www.ietf.org/tao-archive/>.




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  From time to time, versions of the Tao are translated into other
  languages.  These translations do not represent IETF consensus and
  may be provided on an "as is" basis.  The issues of how translations
  are recorded, made available, cross-referenced to versions of the
  Tao, and archived are outside the scope of this document and are for
  future study.

3.  Proposals for How the Tao Web Page Should Be Developed

  During the discussion that led to this document, there were many
  proposals for how the Tao, as a web page, should be published and
  edited.  Some wanted just a web page; some wanted a web page and
  periodic snapshots as RFCs.  Some wanted a wiki that could be easily
  edited by anyone in the IETF community, with a master editor who
  would revert bad edits; some wanted a wiki with a more limited group
  of contributors.  The procedure in Section 2 above was the rough
  consensus of the discussion.

5.  Security Considerations

  The Tao is available over Transport Layer Security (TLS) at
  <https://www.ietf.org/tao.html>.

6.  Informative References

  [RFC4677]  Hoffman, P. and S. Harris, "The Tao of IETF - A Novice's
             Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force", BCP 17,
             RFC 4677, September 2006.

Author's Address

  Paul Hoffman (editor)
  VPN Consortium

  EMail: [email protected]
















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