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 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.
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.
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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