This is the OPS-DIR review of draft-crocker-id-adoption. The version that I reviewed is http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-crocker-id-adoption-06.txt . The OPS-DIR reviews are focused on the operational and manageability aspects of the documents using RFC 5706 as guidance. Please consider these comments together with the other IETF Last Call comments.   This document  Informational RFC status. It discussed the handling of the documents that become working group items and the process of initial submissions. It is a useful and clearly written document which does not deal with specific operational or manageability aspects, thus RFC 5706 considerations do not apply. Also, from my experience, the OPS area presents no issues that are specific and different from the ones in other areas. Addressing the comments below could clarify and improve some of the document details, but are not blocking.   1.        In section 1.1 I found:      Creation or adoption    of a draft by a working group -- as well as substantive changes to    the document -- need to represent working group rough consensus.   I am not sure what the -– notation intents to convey. Why not just dropping it?     2.   In section 2.2 the last bulleted item in the list of ‘basic considerations for adoption’ is:   ·          Is there strong working group support for working on the draft?   Any reason for mentioning here ‘strong working group support’ rather than ‘rough consensus’?     3.   I believe that the document should avoid giving the impression that it provides yet another definition of the rough consensus, as the text in section 2.2 might lead some people to believe:      Rough consensus:    Working group agreement to adopt is not          required to be unanimous.   I would rather point to RFC 1603 (which talks about the rough consensus in a WG as the dominant view of the WG as determined by the chairs) or to draft-resnick-on-consensus.     4.   In section 4 I found:      Absent charter restrictions, a working group is free to create new    documents.  It is not required that all drafts start as the effort of    an individual.  Of course the criteria for brand new documents are    likely to be the same as for those imported into the working group    with the additional and obvious requirement that the working group    chairs will need to appoint authors/editors before any work can    progress.      This text slightly puzzles me. Creating from scratch documents that are directly WG documents is not (I believe) a common practice. Moreover, it begs the question about how are some of the criteria for adoption in 2.2 which refer explicitly to a ‘document’ verified.   5.   I understand and agree with the intent of the authors to accommodate various levels of maturity for initial WG documents. I would be careful however to avoid pushing this to the extreme of providing only an outline with no content at all. Maybe some text in section 4 explaining that a WG submission is expected to be more than just a placeholder and should have some minimal content would help.   6.   The text in section 5.2 reflects the fact that the issue of competing drafts has been looked in carefully by the authors. I wonder whether they considered mentioning the (quite wide-spread) practice by which chairs invite contributions to be submitted by a certain date, or at least the intention to submit contributions be announced by a certain date – this limiting the risks and adverse effects of last minute ‘surprises’.   Regards,   Dan