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

[Magnus Westerlund <[e-mail]>]

On 2011-05-17 09:16, Glen Zorn wrote:
> 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.

Yes, they need to respond to that, and ensure that they have a working
email address in the draft. Otherwise I personally do have a preference
for keeping them as authors, but please ensure that they are asked for
their preference.

Cheers

Magnus Westerlund

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