Re: 6MAN: Adoption call on draft-hinden-6man-rfc1981bis-01

> On 5 Feb 2016, at 13:03, Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> On 2/5/16 3:16 AM, otroan@employees.org wrote:
>> Fred,
>> 
>>> One question on the authorship - I can say with some certainty that
>>> Jack McCann and Jeff Mogul are no longer with Digital Equipment
>>> Corporation. Would they  be actively involved in this work if it is
>>> accepted as a working group item?
>> 
>> I don't expect them to be. For the documents we're advancing to
>> Internet Standard, and therefore only do very minor tweaks to, I
>> think it makes most sense to keep the original authors. Unless they
>> object.
> 
> Um, no. The original authors stay on the draft because they are the ones
> responsible for most of the text within the document. Accurate
> representation of authorship is critical for many reasons (e.g., IPR).

RFC 4861 is a good example, where Hesham was added to the original 
authors as the collator of edits. There’s also an Appendix listing the changes
in RFC 4861, which we should probably have here too.

Tim

> 
> Regards,
> Brian
> 
>> 
>> Best regards, Ole
>> 
>>>> -----Original Message----- From: ipv6
>>>> [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of otroan@employees.org 
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 12:26 PM To: 6man WG Cc:
>>>> bob.hinden@gmail.com Subject: 6MAN: Adoption call on
>>>> draft-hinden-6man-rfc1981bis-01
>>>> 
>>>> This message starts a two week 6MAN call on adopting:
>>>> 
>>>> Name:	draft-hinden-6man-rfc1981bis-01 Title:	Path MTU Discovery
>>>> for IP version 6 Document date:	2015-12-01 Pages:	16 URL:
>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hinden-6man-rfc1981bis/ 
>>>> Htmlized:
>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hinden-6man-rfc1981bis-01 Diff:
>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-hinden-6man-rfc1981bis-01.txt
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
> as a working group item. Substantive comments and statements of support
>>>> for adopting this document should be directed to the mailing 
>>>> list. Editorial suggestions can be sent to the authors.
>>>> 
>>>> This document is part of the working group’s ongoing work on
>>>> advancing the core IPv6 standards to Internet Standard.
>>>> 
>>>> This adoption call will end on February 17th, 2016.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Bob Hinden & Ole Trøan
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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