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Re: IESG Statement on surprised authors

2015-05-31 10:19:02
Hi Brian and Benoit,

If authors are added purposefully to a draft without their consent, it is
indeed disturbing, but I hate to see IETF cycles spent dealing with
investigations if they can be avoided in an automated manner.

Isn't one way to deal with this to build additional mechanisms into the
draft submittal confirmation procedure?  I believe that currently, only
one of the author's needs to approve submission/update.  If this were
changed to require all authors to confirm the original submission, then it
would save people-hours investigating and dealing with this.  When
submitting an updated draft, only a single author would need to approve if
the author list didn't change.  Of course, newly added authors would need
to approve as well if the updated draft included a new author.

Thanks, Larry

On 5/29/15 1:55 PM, "IESG Secretary" <iesg-secretary(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org> wrote:

IETF community,

The IESG is planning to publish an IESG statement concerning the
authorship of Internet drafts. This statement is only focused on the
situation where an IETF participant feels he/she has been erroneously
listed as an author on a draft. The statement can be seen here:

http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/iesg/trac/wiki/SurprisedAuthors

We are seeking community feedback on this statement and welcome input
that will help encourage proper behavior. Please provide any feedback
by June 10, 2015 to either ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org or the IESG directly at
iesg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org.

Regards,
Brian and Benoit (on behalf of the IESG)