Standards process (1)
Initial proposal from a scheduled birds-of-a-feather session (BOF)
Working Group (WG) charter and chair(s) approved by IESG and IAB (see RFC 1603)
WG produces & debates Internet Drafts by email and meetings
Chair must establish rough consensus - NO VOTING within the WG!
WGs are allowed to fail (their output is scrapped or tagged ‘historical’)
WG may produce ‘informational’ output