Subject: Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

From: Bernard Aboba <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:34:20 -0700

[BA] My comment is that having guidelines for this could help make the advancement process more predictable.  Thank you for working on this.   
Jari Arkko said:
During the discussion of the two maturity levels change, a question was brought up about DISCUSSes appropriate for documents that advance on the standards track. We discussed this in the IESG and I drafted some suggested guidelines. Feedback on these suggestions would be welcome. The intent is to publish an IESG statement to complement the already existing general-purpose DISCUSS criteria IESG statement (http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html). 
 
Here are the suggested guidelines for documents that advance to IS: 
 
http://www.arkko.com/ietf/iesg/discuss-criteria-advancing.txt 
 
Comments appreciated. Please send comments either on this list or to the IESG ([email-masked]) in time before our next telechat (Thursday, September 8, 2011).