Re: Call for review of proposed update to ID-Checklist

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Monday, August 11, 2008 12:54 AM +0200 Henrik Levkowetz 
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>> And this is precisely one of the examples to which I was
>> referring, because, in exceptional circumstances, the RFC
>> Editor  has been willing to negotiate that limit.  However,
>> if my memory  is correct, the "nits" checker, which draws its
>> authority from  the Checklist, gets sufficiently annoyed
>> about more than five  authors to prevent posting of I-Ds.
>
> Umm???
>
> If you're referring to idnits, it does no test the number of
> authors
> in any way or form.  I haven't checked whether the current,
> soon-to
> be replaced submission tool tries to check this, but idnits
> does most emphatically not.

I apologize to idnits.   I have seen documents rejected by some 
process because they had more than five authors, but I don't 
remember whether it was the submission tool or someone 
overzealous at the (present or past) Secretariat.

    john

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