I am writing this from the viewpoint of someone who keeps trying to establish new GGF groups, once in a while...

When seing this document listed as "working group formation" I was delighted to see such a document. However, the actual
 title and content focusing on WG formation DOCUMENTATION only falls short in being helpful to new WG founders.

To begin with, this document should explain its relations to GFD.3, as there is quite some overlap in content. E.g., is 
this document intended to obsolete parts of GFD.3 ? For sure, there will be ambiguities and contradictions when having 
two documents with so much overlap -- so this should be made clear.

Most importantly, I would have wished this document to explain the full WG formation procedure. Begin with an outline of
 "what is the purpose of a GGF WG"? Then describe the steps taken to create a new WG, and the documentation becomes an 
important part here.
What would be most useful to the GGF community is a "WG formation HOWTO" document that makes everything explicit and 
obvious, such that there is no more guessing about "what would GFSG think abut this?"

In 1.1, the document tries to establish having exactly 2 chairs and 2 secretaries. As you might know, I am opposing this
 policy. Please make this more flexible, and give some motivation for the roles of all group officers and maybe even of 
their numbers.


I would suggest to write a sibling document for research groups.


Minor coments on the document text:

To me it is not clear what is the difference between 1.2.1 and 1.2.2.
"focus" and "scope" are almost synonyms, so I would have difficulties addressing these in a WG proposal. Can you clarify
 that?

2. "seven questions", first paragraph:

first sentence: "of this group"
Which group? maybe it is better to say "of a new group"