Re: I-D submission tool draft

Thanks for the comments, Scott.

    I'm replying in a separate mail, to you and to the tools-discuss
mailing list.

	Henrik

scott bradner wrote:
> this looks pretty good but a few comments
> 
> this seems to have taken the approach of taking a fully formed ID text
> and trying to parse and check it, not an unreasonable approach but was
> the alternative of having the submitter fill in some or all of the meta
> data on a submission form (authors names & contacts, filename,
> boilerplate options etc) considered?
> 
> I think that this process is missing a chance to deal with one of the
> confusions about the IETF's process - if the submission process included
> a click-through agreement covering the IPR (copyright & patent
> disclosure) requirements it would eliminate any possibility for the
> submitter to claim that they did not know or for the submitter to say
> that some other text in the document negates the boilerplate - this is a
> proposal that has come up a few times over the last few years, if we
> create a tool for people to use to submit IDs it would seem to be a good
> time to implement such a process
> 
> I will say that I'm not fond of the idea of requiring that WG chairs
> pre-approve the submission of -00 WG IDs, as a WG chair I'd rather be
> able to enforce me getting a chance to review the document first - I'm
> fine with letting a WG chair be able to pre approve but I do not think
> it should be the only way that the process should be able to work
> 
> Scott
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