{
  "draft": "draft-crocker-id-adoption-09",
  "doc_id": "RFC7221",
  "title": "Handling of Internet-Drafts by IETF Working Groups",
  "authors": [
    "A. Farrel",
    "D. Crocker, Ed."
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "14",
  "pub_status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "source": "IETF - NON WORKING GROUP",
  "abstract": "The productive output of an IETF working group is documents, as mandated by the working group's charter.  When a working group is ready to develop a particular document, the most common mechanism is for it to \"adopt\" an existing document as a starting point.  The document that a working group adopts and then develops further is based on initial input at varying levels of maturity.  An initial working group draft might be a document already in wide use, or it might be a blank sheet, wholly created by the working group, or it might represent any level of maturity in between.  This document discusses how a working group typically handles the formal documents that it targets for publication.",
  "pub_date": "April 2014",
  "keywords": [
    "IETF",
    "process",
    "working group",
    "Internet-Draft",
    "adoption",
    "handling",
    "creation"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC7221",
  "errata_url": null
}