Re: Unhelpful draft names

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Allison,

On 10/03/2015 15:56, Allison Mankin wrote:
> As Yoav mentioned, the authors are new attendees, and the work is targeted
> to an IRTF group at that. I have an acquaintance with them and hope they
> aren't reading this, but how do folks think this outcry about seems as a
> welcome to do work here?

I worried about that before sending my note, but decided that an invented
example was not persuausive. If there's a fault, it's "ours" for not
making the convention a bit more apparent to newcomers. That's what needs
fixing.

   Brian


> On Mar 9, 2015 10:37 PM, "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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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