On 2009-10-19, at 9:53 AM, Alexis Richardson wrote:
Well it sounds like at least three people, including myself, prefer the IETF model.
Well, filling in some details then... In an IETF WG there are typically one or two co-chairs and then one or two co-editors. Typically the editors produce a sequence of drafts; they get to make lots of judgment calls, particularly on wording, and to include their own solutions to issues that haven't really been discussed yet. Then when things get intense, the chairs eventually decree what the consensus is and the editors do that. It's really helpful that at any one time, there's one internet-draft which is the subject of discussion. When I was chairing I used to demand that suggested changes come with complete "camera-ready" deltas aimed at the current draft. In the Atom WG we had a wiki which was mostly used to construct these change proposals. -Tim