Re: [Tools-discuss] handling of Working group label in ietf.org hosted output

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 09.12.2019 19:29, Michael Richardson wrote:
>
> Due to cargo-culting and copy and paste I have:
>
>     wg: anima Working Group
>
> in my markdown, which results in:
>     <workgroup>anima Working Group</workgroup>
>
> I happened to notice in the HTML output hosted on ietf.org/id/ how prominent
> this is, and how easily it could be used to confuse people into thinking my
> document had been adopted, when it was still an individual submission.
>
> Clearly, I should conscientiously put something else there.
> 1) what should I put?  I think that "independant submission" would make
> sense.

Just put nothing there.

> 2) I think that the result should be driven by the datatracker.
>
> My suggestion is that the xml2rfc converter have an command line override for
> this element, such that the actual value for Internet-drafts can be driven by
> the datatracker rather than the author.
>
> This is not a new problem, btw.  I think that it was just wasn't so obvious
> in tools.ietf.org, because the included header in the htmlized output made
> that WG label a lot less obvious.

The formatter at least could emit a warning if the draft name doesn't
match "draft-ietf-*".

Best regards, Julian