Harald,
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
Florent,
as in many other things, the IETF doesn't have a history of complete consistency.....
in the case of an existing WG abandoning an I-D, I'm sure that the next version of the I-D should be named draft-myfavouriteauthor-something (where "something" can easily contain the WG name if so desired).
Sometimes, when a WG is closed with outstanding I-Ds, and some of these are finished as individual submissions, we have allowed them to be updated keeping the old draft name. But that's the exception.
Makes sense?
It makes a lot of sense: many thanks for the piece of advice :-)
Florent
P.S:
1) My original concern was that if a WG I-D has been abandoned, having it keep its draft-mybelovedWG-something name could be confusing.
Indeed, people aware of the IETF naming convention for I-Ds but not of the history of this draft might misinterpret the status of this particular draft!
And this was my case for a specific draft ;-) ...
However, I also agree that making the abandoned WG I-D revert to an individual submission filename could also confuse by "hiding" the version numbers of the work that has possibly been done while it was a WG item.
2) My two cents: perhaps we could incorporate this in the Guidelines to Authors of Internet-Drafts (http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt) in the submitting section, at the end of the second paragraph:
"If the document is abandoned as a working group document, it should be processed as an individual submission, where the filename will be draft-<yourname>-....txt".... but since I am not sure how often this occurs, such a precision may be more harmful than useful
Harald
--On 27. juli 2004 08:43 +0200 Florent <florent.bersani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking for procedural guidance on the naming convention to be followed for an Internet-Draft that has been adopted as a WG item and that has therefore been granted a name like draft-mybelovedwg-blabla-XX.txt but that is now returning to the individual submission status - be it that the WG finally abandoned this WG item after more technical investigations, that the WG rechartered making this former WG item now out of scope, etc.
Thus, this Internet-Draft should probably revert to a filename similar to
draft-myfavoriteauthor-blibli-YY.txt, shouldn't it?
I couldn't unfortunately find any relevant text on this (though I tried RFC 2026 and http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt) :-(
Any feedback most welcome, Many thanks in advance,
Florent
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