Re: [AVTCORE] Comments on draft-ietf-avtcore-monarch-01

[Glen Zorn <[e-mail]>]

On 5/17/2011 1:59 PM, Magnus Westerlund wrote:

> On 2011-05-17 08:47, Glen Zorn wrote:
>> Section 10 says "Geoff Hunt and Philip Arden wrote the initial draft for
>> this document".  That being the case, they should be listed as authors
>> or, at the very least, in a "Contributors" section; I much prefer the
>> former, since there is no lack of space on the front page.  In that same
>> vein, I think that Qin Wu should be listed as "Editor".
> 
> I agree that they need to be duly credited. However, unless they are at
> least somewhat active and willing to respond to some emails at least in
> the RFC-editor phase they need to be in the contributor section.
> Otherwise they are holding up the process and forces us and the AD to do
> extra process.

But all they really need to do is respond to AUTH48, right?  My view is
that if they wrote the document then they need to be authors; if at the
end they disappear (i.e., are unreachable), they can always be removed.