Re: Unhelpful draft names

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On 10/03/2015 10:08, Jari Arkko wrote:
> 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 wouldn't want to do that, for sure.

> 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.

Yes. And the draft submission page would be a good place to
have a pointer to the advertisement.

> 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.

I wouldn't go further than having the tool throw up an
"Are you sure?" dialogue box if it sees a name with only
one component after "draft-".

    Brian
> 
> 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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