Brian, Are you suggesting that we should try to prevent the IETF participants from being clever with the naming of their drafts and protocols? Good luck with that :-) I think the current status is actually pretty reasonable - although if Jordi doesn’t know about the convention then we should perhaps advertise it more widely. However, I’m not sure stricter *rules* about the file names will buy us that much. And we already enforce the use of draft-ietf-* only for adopted documents, which I think is the useful case. Personally, I look at the drafts that are discussed on the list or are on the agenda, not because they have someone’s name on them… in any case, given that there are usually multiple authors, looking for interesting material based on someone’s last name isn’t really going to work on merely based on the file name. Similarly, often there is no working group yet for a topic, so we end up with draft-someone-newtopic-00.txt. I wouldn’t mind a warning based on seeing draft-oneword-00.txt in the submission tool… but I also wouldn’t it rate it very highly in the overall priorities of tool support. Jari
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