Re: [Tools-discuss] Internet Draft Submission

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi Christopher,

On 2013-04-15 11:44 Dearlove, Christopher (UK) said:
> I'm trying to update an I-D of which I'm an author. Through finger
> trouble (I presume) I submitted the xml as txt, and unsurprisingly it
> failed IDnits. Unfortunately I failed to realise this and the nature
> of the error messages made me think I had wrong boilerplate. I missed
> the opportunity to cancel then.
> 
> Now any attempt to update the I-D is blocked. If I upload a new
> version it ignores it and only uses the old version. There's a button
> to send all authors an email to the authorised cancellation page. It
> doesn't work - and it's not just me, I've checked and co-author not
> getting it either. And I've tried more than once. So far nothing
> except an automated response from ietf-action.

If the button to send the authors a link to the cancellation page doesn't
work, then we need to fix that.  We're looking at that now.  I've sent
you a message off-list with the relevant link.

> So I think I've found a denial of service attack on the IETF, I could
> upload broken I-Ds where important work is being done and block the
> authors being able to update them.

But only if the action to send the page link to the authors is broken.
That needs to work.

> More seriously, why this behaviour? I think it should be fairly clear
> that if someone (unauthenticated) uploads a document and it's broken,
> the default action should not be to retain it and block all further
> attempts to update that document. Blocking should only be possible
> once authenticated. If someone submits something and it's broken, the
> response should be "this will shortly be discarded, unless you
> authenticate and say you really want this held waiting for
> correction".

I agree.  That's not what the specification (RFC 4228) said, if I remember
correctly, but I think that's the right thing to do.

> But really, I just want to submit my I-D. Last Friday when I started
> this.

Understood.  You should be able to with the link I sent.


Best regards,

	Henrik