On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Fred Baker (fred) <fred@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sep 3, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Nico Williams <nico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> A lot of WGs and WG work items start life as individual submission I-Ds. >> The tracker nowadays tracks their transformation into WG work items. > > yes, but... there are individual submissions and individual submissions. > > A draft named “draft-myname-mytopic” is a draft on mytopic submitted by byname. > A draft named “draft-myname-targetgroup-mytopic” is a draft on mytopic submitted by byname to targetgroup. > > In the first case, the onus is pretty much on the author to get someone to read it. In the second case, assuming a working group or other list is notified, can reasonably expect someone to actually read it. Sure, because an individual submission I-D will not be updated once it's replaced by a WG item, so if the premise is to react to submissions, that works. Though even then: it's the submitter's job to get the target WG to adopt that item or the participants to review it independently of the WG. But if you want to help them get that attention, sure, why not. Nico --