On 21/02/2014 12:15, John C Klensin wrote: ... > I've often wished that the submission tool would check a table > for a small number of organizational tags (ietf, iab, etc.) and, > if the first string after "draft-" didn't appear there, check it > against the first author name. Why only the first author? I don't think that restriction is called for. > It would be fairly easy to > verify that "draft-ietf-" was followed immediately by a > short-form WG name too. I believe that is already checked, since draft-ietf-*-00 drafts have to be approved by a WG Chair, and that case is detected automatically. Brian > If documents that didn't satisfy those > criteria went to manual posting and required an explanation to > the secretariat, I think the cutesiness would mostly stop in a > hurry. If would also stop "draft-<made-up-organization>-..." > which, IMO, would be a real service to the community. > > john > > >