Good, contact those authors and tell them to use example.* instead Sent from my iPhone On Apr 20, 2015, at 15:59, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Actually, this might be the start of a real problem. The ietf.org >> has a great page rank value. Getting your domain into a url into >> a draft on the IETF site has value. In this case, I noticed two >> URLs that we would never put in real drafts, things to personal >> domains where real authors would use "example.com". That's a very >> simple objective rule that can be enforced. If we don't, we might >> end up attracting spammers in attempts to bring up their page >> ranking on search engines. > > I would strongly suggest not making up new rules to solve problems > that do not currently exist and probably never will. Two I-D's from > someone who doesn't understand the IETF does not make a crisis, and > there are much easier ways to do SEO gaming than to write fake drafts. > > I have always found the vast majority of drafts that go by aren't > interesting to me because they're in areas I don't work in and don't > understand very well. Skipping a few more because they're incoherent > isn't a problem. > > On the other hand, a little grepping of the I-D directory finds 30 > drafts with references to one of my personal domains, most in drafts I > did not write, and all in drafts that people would consider to be > serious. I don't mind, but I expect your new robot might. > > R's, > John