Brian
For me, you are implicitly changing the way in which Working Groups
operate best, in that once an I-D is adopted by a WG, then change
control should reside in the Working Group [RFC2418] and the I-D should
be EDITED accordingly. That is, there is always an editor at that point
and their name is likely to be on the first page, often at the top.
Who has contributed and how much is a separate question, for me, and may
have been decided even before a WG adopts an I-D.
And this blurring of editorship and authorship I think leads to poor
Working Group practice, when the person with the idea writes the initial
I-D, keeps control when the WG adopts the I-D and makes changes as and
when they think fit without sufficient discussion or consensus on the
list. I see this more often than I like and think that it slows down
the process and leads to an I-D that suits that person and - may be -
comes unstuck later such as at IETF Last Call or IETF Review when there
is sufficient independent review to call out the inadequacies.
I think that getting the process right is more important for the IETF
than giving people their citations.
Tom Petch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian E Carpenter" <brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
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Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 5:49 AM
This is intended to frame the discussion we've been having.
Comments/criticisms welcome.
Brian
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Subject: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-whats-an-author-00.txt
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:33:25 -0700
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
Title : What is an Author of an IETF Stream Draft?
Author : Brian Carpenter
Filename : draft-carpenter-whats-an-author-00.txt
Pages : 4
Date : 2015-04-23
Abstract:
This draft suggests guidelines for assigning authorship in IETF
Internet-Drafts. It also discusses the related issues of named
contributors and acknowledgements.
The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-carpenter-whats-an-author/
There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-carpenter-whats-an-author-00
Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of
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