Re: IESG Statement on surprised authors

[S Moonesamy <[e-mail]>]

At 16:25 29-05-2015, joel jaeggli wrote:
>Writing acknowledgments sections is largely a matter of editorial
>discretion, where good sense and general attribution practices are the
>primary guidelines, although RFC 2026 Section 10.3.1 has some specific
>rules regarding acknowledgment of major contributors, copyright, and IPR.

That section in RFC 2026 is no longer applicable.  The above might be 
covered by the following text in a BCP:

    "The Contribution properly acknowledges all Contributors, including
     Indirect Contributors."

The proposed "surprised authorship" statement covers:

   (a) Authorship

   (b) Acknowledgements

   (c) Contributor

   (d) Indirect Contributor

   (e) Ethics

   (f) IPR

It's better to withdraw a problematic Internet-Draft as if one of the 
listed authors has not agreed to "enter into [the] legally-binding 
agreement".  I suggest not issuing an IESG statement about this 
matter as it is not a document which the IETF will be publishing.  If 
the IESG would like to have a statement it might have to figure out 
whether it is a good idea to cover (a) to (f) in a statement.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy