RFC 4858 · INFORMATIONAL · 2007

Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication

Overview

RFC 4858, “Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication”, is an Informational document published in May 2007 by H. Levkowetz, D. Meyer, L. Eggert, A. Mankin. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes methodologies that have been designed to improve and facilitate IETF document flow processing. It specifies a set of procedures under which a working group chair or secretary serves as the primary Document Shepherd for a document that has been submitted to the IESG for publication. Before this, the Area Director responsible for the working group has traditionally filled the shepherding role. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

Read this RFC

The canonical text of RFC 4858 is hosted at rfc-editor.org. Available in TXT,HTML.

Other RFCs from 2007

Who Is Online

In total there are 36 users online: 0 registered, 29 guests and 7 bots.

Most users ever online was 5,555 on 17 Jul 2026, 3:23 am.

Bots: AhrefsBot Baiduspider Bingbot Other Bot Other Crawler PetalBot SemrushBot

Users active in the past 15 minutes. Total registered members: 372