Re: perplexed by an I-D-editor request

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

Tony Hansen wrote:
> I sent in an I-D before Dallas. It was a -00 WG document, and was
> appropriately approved, etc., to get into the I-D repository.
> 
> One thing I forgot to tell the I-D editor was that this -00 document was
> replacing a former individual -01 I-D.
> 
> I recently remembered to send a note off to the I-D Editor telling them
> that the -00 WG document replaced the -01 individual I-D. I got a note
> back from the I-D Editor saying
> 
> 	The wg chairs should confirm this replacement.
> 
> This request seems rather strange to me. The I-D Editor already has the
> approved -00 WG in the I-D store; I'm the author of both documents, and
>  the titles are the same. Shouldn't the word of the author saying that a
> non-WG document has been superceded by a WG document be sufficient? I
> can see needing confirmation when documents are downgraded from a WG
> document to a non-WG document, but certainly not the other way
> around.
> 
> Anyway, I was perplexed. Can anyone elucidate?

Tony, I think it's a corner case - normally the "replaces draft-hansen-foo"
would have passed without question if included in the original I-D submission.
I guess whoever handled this in the secretariat followed the nearest
applicable procedure.

Hopefully, once we get the much awaited on-line draft submission tool,
all this will just be taken care of by the user interface.

    Brian