When the AD performs their AD Review there are things they should remember in their review to minimize late surprises.
- Charter - Is this document within the WG's charter?
- Milestone - Does the produced document conform to the milestone?
- Intended Status - Verify Tracker setting and that it matches Writeup
- Updates or Obsoletes - Verify that the obsoleted document is in IETF stream, else see Obsoleting other streams
- IPR - Author declarations and WG consensus, check write-up. Non-standard or other copyright statements in draft is an issue. If there is a chain of draft replaced by, verify that not earlier has IPR that may have been forgotten.
- Check for new 8174 Boilerplate (Upper Case keywords)
- Check out the guidelines in https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/support-documents/ to see if there will be pushback from the IESG. If so discuss with the chairs/wg
- IANA Sections:
- Change controller for IETF stream documents should be the "IETF". For port and service names, RFC 6335 specifies that Change controller is IESG and contact IETF chair.
- Check number of authors and justification in write-up if more than 5
- Check "replaces" field in datatracker (also to make sure there are no lost IPR declarations of previous versions)
- External Review Required: Check write-up and document. URI, Media Types, etc require or recommends reviews
- Downref - Normative references to informational documents not in down-ref registry.
- Check if there are any documents that are not freely available (i.e. behind a paywall)
- Set the Consensus field in the tracker based on the desired setting
- Updates - Does the method for implementing updates match guidelines and current IESG thinking.
- ID Nits - This is extra challenging now with V3 format and that our guidance in not in sync. For example several aspects of https://www.ietf.org/standards/ids/checklist/ is wrong for a V3 format document.