Re: [Dhcpv6bis] Authors on draft-ietf-dhc-rfc3315bis

As you know, I think that this isn't appropriate.   Of course, I also happen to be the person with the lowest number of commits, but I believe I have offered some fairly substantial contribution, particularly early in the process.   I've done more commenting than direct editing; I believe that is a relevant contribution.   I don't know who we'd vote off the island, and that's really what we're being asked to do.   This is not a situation where the list of authors has been padded with do-nothing authors: rather, it's a situation where there was a ton of work to do, and a lot of people contributed meaningfully.

I would respectfully ask that Suresh push back on this request in this case.   I realize that it's stylistically bad, but this is an unusual document—it's a merge of several previous documents, and that merge was a lot of work, more so than is reflected by the current page count.

> On Aug 30, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Bernie Volz (volz) <volz@cisco.com> wrote:
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> Hi:
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> Suresh (cc’d) indicated that we should look to reduce the authors at the “top” of the document as the IESG is pushing for limiting this to 5. We currently have 8 authors.
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> While it is only ONE measure of contribution, the following link provides the GITHUB commits by person:
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> https://github.com/dhcwg/rfc3315bis/graphs/contributors <https://github.com/dhcwg/rfc3315bis/graphs/contributors>
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> Other contributions which this does not show are involvement in discussions (either in our jitsu or face-to-face (@ IETF) meetings). And, in reviewing and editing some of the text (such as in google docs).
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> In the co-authors call today (Ted, Tim, and I), we discussed this. Ted feels it is worth pushing back on this as everyone has contributed – it isn’t like we had “fake” authors that just pushed to have their name on the document.
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> Certainly, there are a few people that have contributed less over time, but that doesn’t diminish their earlier contributions.
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> So, what should we do?
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> If there’s anyone on the authors list that is OK with being removed from the initial list of authors (you’d still be in the authors list in the end), let me know.
> If anyone has any thoughts on this topic, please comment.
>  
> Bernie
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