[Tools-discuss] "Distantly related Internet-Drafts"?

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

So, just for completeness, I should also ask this question about my oddly
filenamed Internet-Draft.

If you look at the QUIC working group's document page (
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/quic/documents/), and scan down to


Related Internet-Drafts (24 hits)
you'll see these three drafts.



<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dawkins-quic-multipath-selection/reviewrequest/addreviewwish/?next=/wg/quic/documents/>
draft-dawkins-quic-multipath-selection-01
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dawkins-quic-multipath-selection/>
Path Selection for Multiple Paths In QUIC
2021-06-02
13 pages
I-D Exists
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/community/personal/[e-mail]/trackdocument/draft-dawkins-sdp-rtp-quic/>
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dawkins-sdp-rtp-quic/reviewrequest/addreviewwish/?next=/wg/quic/documents/>
draft-dawkins-sdp-rtp-quic-00
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dawkins-sdp-rtp-quic/>
SDP Offer/Answer for RTP using QUIC as Transport
2021-09-08
11 pages
I-D Exists
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/community/personal/[e-mail]/trackdocument/draft-dawkins-sdp-rtp-quic-questions/>
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dawkins-sdp-rtp-quic-questions/reviewrequest/addreviewwish/?next=/wg/quic/documents/>
draft-dawkins-sdp-rtp-quic-questions-00
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dawkins-sdp-rtp-quic-questions/>
SDP Offer/Answer for RTP using QUIC as Transport - Design Questions
2021-09-29
12 pages
New
I-D Exists
The first document filename starts with "draft-dawkins-*quic*". I expect
this one to be listed as a related Internet-Draft. The filename is
"draft-author-wgname-*", as suggested for Internet-Drafts in
https://www.ietf.org/standards/ids/guidelines/#7, and it is related to the
QUIC working group.

The second and third document filenames start with "draft-dawkins-sdp-rtp-
*quic*". I wasn't expecting to see these listed as related to the QUIC
working group. These drafts are intended for discussion on the MOQ ("Media
Over QUIC'') non-WG mailing list, and (if I understand the guidance I've
gotten from the TSV and ART ADs correctly) are actually out of scope for
the QUIC working group.

Is it possible that the datatracker is scanning the filename looking for *any
*occurrence of a working group name, not just in the third position?

>From the "Spencer is not the center of the universe" department, is it
reasonable to list individual drafts as "related", if the filename includes
the working group name in any position? If so, maybe that just needs to be
documented someplace (it doesn't look like
https://www.ietf.org/standards/ids/guidelines has been updated since Russ
Housley was IETF Chair), and I should be aware of that when choosing
filenames.

I thought the matching logic had been tightened up several years ago, when
we had an author whose name had a working group short name as a substring,
so anything that person submitted was listed as a Related Internet-Draft
for the working group. But maybe that was just making sure that the working
group short name had dashes on both sides?

Best,

Spencer