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Re: Policy and tools regarding the filing of Internet Drafts

2015-04-30 13:22:45

On Apr 30, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Lee Howard <Lee(_at_)asgard(_dot_)org> wrote:

I've been thinking about the point that requiring confirmation from all
authors would slow down the process when against a deadline, and it could
be easily gamed if the submitter lists herself as the only author on the
-00, then immediately submits a -01 listing all of the other authors. Then
the WG gets timely access to the content of the draft, and the authors
bring -01 (fully attributed and attested) as the version for discussion.

Well, having done some further research, I think the confirmation would have to 
be done for each address added. I’m thinking, in that regard, of a specific 
draft and the pattern of it, in which the draft has gone through multiple 
iterations in one working group and moved to another, with drops and adds on 
each iteration of the draft (and no, I don’t want to identify it publicly, as 
this is neither about the primary author nor the company, it’s about the 
behavior). Basically, every time there is a putative author in version NN that 
isn’t in version NN-1, I might suggest querying the address.

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