Re: IDs in "GEN" area, not owned by Harald

[Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>]

> I had thought that ADs updated the area when taking over the document, but 
> I guess I had not thought seriously about it; I haven't started using the 
> "search by area" feature much.

I would if I noticed... one problem  has been (for me) that I normally
search for "INT" documents so don't always notice the non-INT documents...

> Are there corner cases here, where, for instance, the logical area is a 
> different one from the area the AD manages?
> If so, the logical course might be to leave it to the discretion of the AD.
> If not, telling the secretariat to update the area when updating the 
> shepherding AD for these docs is reasonable.

Thinking some more, ID tracker already has a way to flag IDs as having
come in via the RFC editor. Such documents are flagged on the details
page as being RFC ed docs (vs. being WG documents or individual docs).

What I think would work more cleanly than overloading the "area" tag
is to put in a special WG name, e.g., "rfc-ed", that all IDs coming
from the RFC editor get assigned to. We could then search/group such
IDs just like we do for WG documents. The Area can then be assigned in
whatever way makes sense.

Thomas