Re: perplexed by an I-D-editor request

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Hello Tony,


      I hope the following helps:

      Please refer to "Guidelines to Authors Of Internet Drafts" section 7.

http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.html

"If the document is a new one (i.e., starting with revision -00.txt) and is
submitted as a working group document, the IETF Secretariat needs
permission from the chair(s) of the wg to publish it as a working group
document. Working group chairs should submit this permission at (or close
to) the time that the draft is submitted for posting. To expedite the
process, authors are encouraged to send the document to
"[e-mail]" and at the same time cc: to the chair(s) of the
working group."



Regards,
Menachem Dodge





                                                                           
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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non-WG document has been superceded by a WG document be sufficient?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 Hansen
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