[Snort-sigs] Proposal for addition of author to standard rule listings

Greetings,

I would like to propose the addition of an author reference to the
rules. This is not to gloat about rules (although it might entice people
to submit rules as their name in the rule shows their active community
participation). But the main idea is to put some accountability on the
submitter in hopes to raise the quality of community submitted rules.

Since there is no "author:" tag in Snort, or a comment field, my thought
was to use the "reference:" field for that purpose. So I would like to
propose the addition of "author" as a reference type. That way rules can
be referenced to their submitter (and subsequent people that modify,
tweak and improve the rule). I envision something like
"reference:author,bmc@snort.org;".

Again, the main goals are to a) improve active participation (much like
with the documentation efforts), and b) to cause people to create better
quality rules before their name gets attached to it.

What is the thought of the community of this idea?

Regards,
Frank

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