what is important here is the quality of work.
in the end people will refer to the draft using the first author name with the
famous "et al."
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abbie
Garrett Wollman wrote:
<<On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 17:21:03 -0800, RFC Editor <rfc-ed(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU>
said:
Author(s): B. Aboba, P. Calhoun, S. Glass, T. Hiller,
P. McCann, H. Shiino, G. Zorn, G. Dommety,
C. Perkins, B. Patil, D. Mitton, S. Manning,
M. Beadles, P. Walsh, X. Chen,
S. Sivalingham, A. Hameed, M. Munson, S. Jacobs,
B. Lim, B. Hirschman, R. Hsu, Y. Xu,
E. Campbell, S. Baba, E. Jaques
Is the IETF now competing with scholarly journals in the race for
``most authors on a single paper''? (No offense intended to the
parties listed above, but you'll pardon me if I get a little
uncomfortable with the idea of a 29-page document having 26 official
authors.)
-GAWollman
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