At 11:11 AM 3/20/2003 -0800, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
give everyone who shows up at an IETF meeting one token, good for 6 months.
require 10 tokens to submit an internet-draft.
the point of posting the draft is to have the discussion you're proposing.
What happens in some quarters, as you know, is that someone who has an idea
goes around and grabs ten names as a "show of support", and lists them all
as authors whether they have read the draft or not. I have found my name on
drafts I didn't even know existed. What is to stop folks from claiming the
tokens of these folks?
I don't think you want to restrict the influx of internet drafts, at least
not drafts related to working groups; that inhibits discussion. One of the
really nice things about the IETF is the ability to post internet drafts at
will and kick ideas around. Taking them to informational or experimental
RFC, or doing a four-week last call, I could see such a procedure.