Folks, I'm delighted that Alexey managed to get past the various barriers our boilerplate and posting tool requirements set up and hope he is now all set, but I'd like to make a suggestion for that future in line with our claims that we are trying to be welcoming to newcomers. The most obvious way to figure out the requirements for and prepare a new I-D is not to navigate a serious of RFCs that lay out the rules but to take a recent or relevant RFC or I-D and try to copy the relevant formats, boilerplate, and other material from it. It turns out that, if one does not already understand the rules, that isn't as obvious as it appears, leading the author to get frustrated with the submission process and various expressions of frustration on this list (few of which are really helpful). By contrast, simply picking up the would-be draft, mashing the front and back matter into the appropriate form, and sending it back to the author as a sample and accompanying it with a friendly note takes very little time (pushing the document name, title, author, and abstract information into XML2RFC and then compiling it took about 15 minutes and I'm sure there are folks around with more talent and better tools who could do it more quickly). I trust I am not the only one who thinks that is a better way to spend 15 minutes than reading and participating in a long thread about appropriateness or pointing the author to a string of references that are a lot more likely to useful once the sense of beating one's head against the wall dissipates. best, john