Subject: [http-state] Initiating WG Last Call: draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-08

From: =JeffH <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 09:21:29 -0700

The purpose of this message is to initiate an HTTPSTATE
Working Group Last Call on the "HTTP State Management
Mechanism" Internet Draft.

WHAT DOCUMENT?

The document in last call is:

  draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-08

  <http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-08.txt>

  <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-08>

  Issue tracker at:

  <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpstate/trac/query?component=cookie>

WHAT IS A LAST CALL FOR?

The purpose of the Working Group Last Call (WGLC) is to
ensure that the working group has reached consensus on the
document, believes that all the known outstanding issues
have been addressed, and is ready to put the document
forward for consideration as an RFC at Proposed Standard
maturity level.

During the last call, any comments on the documents are
collected and discussed on the [email-masked]
mailing list.

HOW LONG DOES IT LAST?

The last call starts today and will last approximately
three weeks. It will end on Monday, 31-May-2010 2359h PDT
(UTC: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 0659h).

WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP?

After the last call completes, there are three possible
outcomes:

1) No changes are required and we request our ADs to put
forward the document to the IESG for proposed standard
status.

2) Minor changes agreed to on the list are required, and
the document is revised. We then ask our ADs to put
forward the revised document to the IESG for proposed
standard status.

3) Major issues are raised and no consensus is reached on
the list. In this case, we slink back and discuss things
until consensus is reached, at which time another working
group last call will be issued.

Assuming we achieve outcome 1) or 2), and that the ADs
agree with our assessment, the next stop for the document
is with the IESG. The IESG reads it and may approve the
documents (with or without changes), or send the document
back to the working group to have major issues addressed.

If the first outcome happens, the document is put forward
for a two-week IETF-wide Last Call, and after successful
completion the document is published as an RFC at proposed
standard maturity level.

If the second outcome happens, we go back and address
the issues, putting the document forward again when we
believe we're ready.

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

You should read the document, making sure that 1) there
are no problems or deficiencies or outstanding issues that
need to be resolved; and 2) that there are no typos,
formatting problems, grammatical errors, etc.

Any substantive problems you find, you should send to the
list. Any minor problems (typos, etc.) you may send to the
list or just to the authors. If, for some reason, you have
comments you don't want to send to the entire list, you may
send them to me.

Read, enjoy, and send your comments in!