Brian,
This document is long overdue, and I appreciate your tackling it.
There are some additional issues that you should address explicitly,
IMO. Some are discussed on various authorship guideline pages, such as:
http://www.apa.org/research/responsible/publication/
IMO, it might be useful to cite a few of them as they help underscore
that you're basically expecting our community to follow generally
accepted best-practices for attribution.
The issues I didn't yet see discussed:
- including authorship for a key intellectual contribution,
e.g., a mechanism, algorithm, etc.
the doc currently focuses on written text, diagrams,
and code, but there are contributions beyond that
- excluding authorship primarily motivated by only:
- funding support (giving author to a financial
sponsor only because of their financial
support)
- placation (giving authorship as a "cookie" to
gain consensus or overcome objection)
- promotion (giving authorship to improve the
credibility or reputation of the doc)
- work or WG relationship (giving authorship to
a supervisor, academic advisor, etc.)
I do think the negative examples are important. Dancing around the issue
doesn't help.
Joe
On 4/23/2015 9:49 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
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
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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:
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