Re: [DNSOP] draft-hsyu-message-fragments replacement status updated by Cindy Morgan

[Mukund Sivaraman <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:54:13PM +0200, Benno Overeinder wrote:
> Mukund,
> 
> On 29/04/2022 22:27, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is indeed how the DNSOP chairs see it and have guided the (new set of)
> > > authors in this way.  We have also asked Haisheng to contact the secretariat
> > > to correct the situation as we cannot withdraw individual drafts or change
> > > status.
> > 
> > With the way this is worded, is it accepted practice for the names of
> > authors of a document to be removed to make way for another set of
> > authors?
> 
> No, certainly not.  If you interpret it that way, I have chosen the wrong
> words.
> 
> What I meant to say is that we made suggestions or try to guide the
> practical procedure for changing the status of document to indicate that it
> is not an active document.

OK, I think I have misunderstood the last 2 emails in this thread.

> The broader discussion of whether it is an accepted practice or not was not
> the subject of my answer to the list.  As I understand there is a discussion
> in the IESG now, and with the email thread on the list and Brian's draft,
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-carpenter-whats-an-author-02, we
> can make progress to better define the process and provide guidance to
> authors and IETF participants.

That sounds good. I browsed through Carpenter's draft. Section 7 in it
is about how to fork (which is welcome), and it sounds reasonable.

		Mukund