This is one of those DPEP (Diversity Problem Entry Point) arising from
globalization, April 1 HRC (Humor Recognition Culture) differences,
IETF "stalization" and the growth of I-D submissions. I suggest there
is a direct correlation among these factors with the end goal efficacy
of the submission. Fortunately, there is a technical solution for this
particular DPEP:
if Date is April.1 then
id.filename = "joke-"+id.filename.
end if
A BCP can be written on when are the better days to submit an I-D.
Clearly, the day with the lowest impact with a high ignorance factor
would be April 1st submissions - its just bad marketing and bad
judgement too, in my book, to submit anything intended to be real and
serious on this day.
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HLS
On 4/7/2013 11:15 AM, John Levine wrote:
That said, I did at one point have to exercise my diplomatic skills when I got forwarded a customer (nameless
here for evermore) question about whether support for RFC 3514 was on our roadmap.
Think of it as free market intelligence on your customer base.
Of course we've only had April 1 RFCs for 35 years now. Who knows
what horrible problem they may yet cause that we haven't noticed yet.