Re: exploring the process of self retiring one's name from an RFC

[Alexandre Petrescu <[e-mail]>]

Christian,

Le 19/04/2019 à 16:09, Christian Huitema a écrit :
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>> On Apr 19, 2019, at 5:18 AM, Alexandre Petrescu 
>> <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> With respect to questioning the kinds of comments that could be 
>> put:
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>> - it's not because the technology has changed that I need my way 
>> removed from it.
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>> - there is no new risk profiles.
>> 
>> - the reality has bent in the sense that the 64bit boundary seems 
>> to be imposed now in all new IPv6-over-foo RFCs.  It was so in the
>>  past (before the RFC), and I was hoping the RFC to change that 
>> tendency.  The reality is that since that RFC many other 
>> IP-over-foo documents have been written, and each time the 
>> recommendation is still to use 64bit IID.  That was not my 
>> intention when co-authoring that RFC.  I got into it to falsely 
>> believe the recommendation would happen in - what was at the time -
>> the future.
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>> With respect to improved usefulness of a perpetual archive to 
>> insert up to date feedback (comments answering the Request for 
>> Comments): I think it sounds natural and it makes sense.  That can
>>  not be the email list of the WG having developed the RFC, because
>>  it gets shut down.
>> 
>> That perpetual archive can not be a new Internet Draft because that
>> expires if not adopted by a WG, which is itself subject to come and
>> go of people.
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> In short, you are asking to remove your name of the authorship of and
> RFC because if you knew then what you know now, you would not have
> written the paper that way, nor signed it.

YEs.

> Think about it.
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> People change opinion all the time, for lots of reasons.

But I did not change my mind!  I always wanted the 64bit boundary
removed - then and now and in the future.  I was in the hope that that
RFC would help.

The events happened in such a way that that RFC hurts instead of
helping.  People read it as if it is a recommendation to use 64bit
boundaries.

> Everybody makes what they think are mistakes. But the record is the 
> record, and you don't get to change it.

I agree.

> You filed an errata to remove your authorship. That errata should be
>  rejected, because the document is not actually erroneous. It states
>  that you were one of the authors at the time of publication, and 
> there is no doubt about that. There is no error.

I tend to agree.  Another person told me in private the same thing.

All I can do now, and I did, is to request an errata.  I agree if it is
rejected. I will take greater care next time when opportunities to
author documents arise - they may be worth considering, others should
rather be avoided.

Alex
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> -- Christian Huitema
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