Hi Brian,
Brian E Carpenter :
Is it useful for authors of a draft to send messages saying things
like "I support the adoption of this draft as a WG document." ?
My gut/initial feeling when I started co-chairing a working group was
also to really challenge the relevance of these answers.
Unfortunately, there are cases where authors appear on a draft but don't
care really about its progress, or initially cared but do not anymore .
In such contexts considering them implicitly as supporters can lead to
an unprecise evaluation of the support for the work.
Additionally, in some working groups the practice has been established
to ask, along with the call for adoption, a reminder question to authors
about IPR disclosure to help avoid that nothing has been delayed or
forgotten. When such a question is asked to authors, most of them also
reply to the adoption question. When from authors we got neither an
answer on the IPR reminder question and on the adoption question, we end
up considering they are not strong supporters of the work. ;-)
Best,
-Thomas
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