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IESG Wiki | IETF Community Wiki
¶ IESG Wiki
Notice an omission or error? Please work with the IESG and edit this page.
¶ Most-used Wiki pages
- Informal Agenda
The agenda for the next informal telechat; add items here - Upcoming IETF
Booking the IESG breakout room, showing arrival times, and agenda topics for the next face-to-face meeting - Additional Meeting Rooms
How to request additional meeting rooms for side meetings and such - Retreat Info
Information about the upcoming IESG retreat - Secretariat tools
See also Issue Tracking and how to send a ticket.
- IESG Appointment to the IETF Trust
- DownRef Registry in the datatracker
- IESG Only Etiquette
When to use and not to use iesg-only mailing list
¶ IESG roles: 2025-2026
| IESG Liaisons | Group |
|---|---|
| Deb | IAB |
| Mike | NomCom |
| Éric V., Paul, Mahesh | Tools Team |
| Deb, Ketan | EODIR |
| Med, Andy | TDD |
| Roman | RSAB |
| Roman | LLC Board |
| Roman, Orie, Eric, Paul | IETF-IANA ASG (IAB Program) |
| Roman, Paul | IAB-ISOC Policy Coordination Group |
¶ IESG mailing List
| Admins |
|---|
| Gunter Van de Velde |
| Mahesh Jethanandani |
| The Secretariat |
¶ Rules
- Process BCPs Formally Accepted by the ISOC Board.
- IESG Statements
¶ Policies, Procedures and Practices
- For Meetings
- Standing Meetings (i.e., formal and informal telechat; and during the plenary meeting)
- BOF Coordination Meetings
- For Document Balloting
- IETF Chair Fee Waiver
¶ Getting Started as an AD
- An IESG Charter, RFC 3710 (2004)
There is a lot of useful information on how to utilize the tools. As a new AD you will work with the Secretariat for access.
Reference for All ADs on subjects such as basic AD responsibilities, using the datatracker, the document ballot process, and much more.
IESG Onboarding and Review slide deck, put together by the Secretariat
¶ Useful Mailing Lists or Addresses
| Email Address or Alias | Recipient |
|---|---|
| [wg]-chairs @ ietf.org | mail the chairs of [wg] |
| [area]-chairs @ ietf.org | mail all the chairs of [area] ("[area]" is one of art, gen, int, ops, rtg, sec, tsv) |
| [ad-name]-chairs @ ietf.org | mail all the chairs of WGs for which [ad-name] is responsible (john-smith-chairs, for example) |
| [wg]-ads @ ietf.org | mail the ADs of [wg]; note that this is the same as [area]-ads for the area in which [wg] resides... it does not send mail only to the AD responsible for [wg] |
| [area]-ads @ ietf.org | mail the ADs of [area] ("[area]" is one of art, gen, int, ops, rtg, sec, wit) |
| irtf-announce @ irtf.org | IRTF announcement list, including progress reports for the different reserach groups. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/irtf-announce |
| tools-discuss @ ietf.org | The mailing list for IETF Tools announcements and discussion. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tools-discuss |
¶ Miscellaneous
The IESG has a private Wiki Site.
The IETF Chair has a demanding Chair Timeline to plan IETF meetings.
Wiki page for Handling Changes When ID is in Queue, Legacy Errata Handling, Speaking for IETF, Dealing with Private Feedback in IETF Process, Ensuring Appropriate Discussion on IETFatIETF List.
Dealing with some complicate IANA Registries: Media Types (a.k.a. MIME Types)
¶ Some abandoned or obsolete stuff
Which is nonetheless useful to save
- Some IESG Thoughts on Liaisons
- On the origins of DISCUSS comments
(This is an older page. Much of this is covered on the more recent ExpertTopics page) - Joint IAB/IESG Workshop
Joint IAB/IESG Workshop Jan 2022 - IAB/IESG/LLC Workshop
IESG IAB and LLC Workshop - information about the October 2021 Workshop - Wiki page for Document Language Editing session at IETF 89 (2014) in London.
- Draft Shepherd Writeup WG Alternate
A new proposal for a radical change to the shepherd writeup, as discussed at IETF 84 (2012). This is a version that strips out all the yes/no sorts of things and instead asks for a paragraph or two of information in each of five categories. (This is now part of the normal shepherd writeup documentation.) - Downref Registry
The former Down Ref Registry - which documents have been Last Called as Downrefs following RFC 3967 (BCP 97) procedure (The Downref Registry has been moved into the datatracker as of 14 April 2017.) - Draft NoteWell Summary
A draft version of a very short Note Well summary. (This is now dead.) - Draft Boilerplate Change
A draft of a change to the boilerplate for cases where we are publishing something (such as documentation of a vendor-specific mechanism) where the community has consensus to publish, but consensus on the content doesn't make sense. (The IAB has chosen not to approve this, but the text is still useful as an IESG note in such documents.) - Directorates Guidelines
Explanations on how to be a member or a chair of a directorate or review team (completed Sep 2021) - Grammar Checking ID
Tools to check grammar in IETF draft (completed Nov 2020) - Special Interest Groups
How to create a special interest group (completed Nov 2020) - Chartering Working Groups
How to charter a new working group (updated Apr 2025) - Expert Topics
Expert Topics for WG Chairs and Document Authors - Use Of Updates Tag
IESG Statement on the use and meaning of the "Updates" and "Updated by" tags. (see also: draft-kuehlewind-update-tag) - WG Charter Internal Review Block Criteria
Proposed criteria for balloting 'Block' during IESG internal review of a WG charter proposed for external review. - IETF Values
In-progress write-up of suggested IETF values - WG IPR Discussions
In-progress writeup on guidance to working groups about making informed decisions about IPR. - Folding In Updates
Advice on folding in updates when progressing a document from PS to IS - Bad Diff Examples
Examples of massive fail when diffing documents for review. - Archive of Former Work
Archive of former projects.