Re: [Tools-discuss] Bad name selection in new draft announcements

Hi,

The code which extracts author information from drafts look at both the
first page author-and-affiliation list, and the authors' addresses
section, in order to figure out which names on the first page are
author names, and which are names of organisations.

(Yes, we should implement author name extraction from submitted XML.
If anybody would like to contribute such code, there's an excellent
opportunity at the upcoming code sprint, on Saturday 28th, in Vancouver.)

In the draft you mention below, the Authors' Addresses section looks as
follows, which makes it *quite* hard to figure out that 'O. Kolkman' and
'A. Cooper', mentioned on the first page, are authors.  GIGO.  Please
provide input which makes it possible to use the Authors' Addresses
section:

----------
Authors' Addresses

   Richard Barnes
   BBN Technologies
   1300 N. 17th St
   Arlington, VA  22209
   USA

   Phone: +1 703 284 1340
   Email: rbarnes@bbn.com

   Matt Lepinski
   BBN Technologies
   10 Moulton St
   Cambridge, MA  02138
   USA

   Phone: +1 617 873 5939
   Email: mlepinski@bbn.com

   Alissa
   Center for Democracy & Technology

   Olaf
   NLnet Labs
----------

Regards,

	Henrik

On 2012-07-10 01:33 Paul Hoffman said:
> Not sure if this is a Tools Team issue or an AMS issue, but I thought I would start here.
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: internet-drafts@ietf.org
>> Subject: I-D Action: draft-barnes-blocking-considerations-00.txt
>> Date: July 9, 2012 4:11:19 PM PDT
>> To: i-d-announce@ietf.org
>> Reply-To: internet-drafts@ietf.org
>>
>>
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>>
>>
>> 	Title           : Technical Considerations for Internet Service Blocking
>> 	Author(s)       : Richard Barnes
>>                          Matt Lepinski
>>                          NLnet Labs
>> 	Filename        : draft-barnes-blocking-considerations-00.txt
>> 	Pages           : 4
>> 	Date            : 2012-07-09
> 
> Actual text from the document:
> 
> Network Working Group                                          R. Barnes
> Internet-Draft                                               M. Lepinski
> Intended status: Informational                          BBN Technologies
> Expires: January 10, 2013                                      A. Cooper
>                                                   Center for Democracy &
>                                                               Technology
>                                                               O. Kolkman
>                                                               NLnet Labs
>                                                             July 9, 2012
> 
> Clearly, the tool cannot discern 100% of the time what is a person's name and what is a company name, but I would think that a pattern of "all names in the form 'X. Yz'" would be better than "the first two lines, and the last one too".
> 
> --Paul Hoffman
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