Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-l3vpn-mvpn-wildcards-00

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

Hello Ben,

I am not aware about any former draft/rfc where there are "zombie authors".

In most documents I have authored section 8 is directly populated from 
the xml header. So even technically I am keen on better understanding 
how xml2rfc conversion tool can list 4 authors in the header and 8 in 
the section 8.

And that is very different from contributors section or separate section 
listing the authors or co-authors of the document.

Best regards,
R.

PS. The common convention during the merge if sigma of authors is 
greater then 5 is to just leave editors of the documents undergoing 
merge - here we are observing a bit different phenomenon.


> Robert,
>
> On 7 Dec 2011, at 00:13, Robert Raszuk wrote:
>
>> Support.
>>
>> However for clarity and future reference perhaps it would be good
>> to document the process of removing 4 authors from the header of
>> the draft and only leaving them in section 8. In particular Yiqun
>> and IJsbrand being original co-authors and contributors to the
>> idea.
>>
>> Even if this is a result of merge with
>> draft-rekhter-mvpn-wildcard-spmsi-04.txt removing original authors
>> of the idea seems odd.
>
> I don't know the specifics for this particular draft as I wasn't
> involved in writing it or any of the drafts that were merged together
> to form it but as I'm sure you know
>
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/policy.html#policy.authlist
>
> states the policy of no more than 5 authors on the front page and
> that they "should be the lead author(s) who are most responsible for
> the actual text" so my assumption is that the authors listed on the
> front page of draft-ietf-l3vpn-mvpn-wildcards-00 are those "most
> responsible" for the text of the combined draft rather than
> necessarily those "most responsible" for the original idea(s).
>
> If anyone feels strongly about only being credited in the "Authors"
> section and not on the front page itself they should bring it up with
> me privately offline.
>
> Regards Ben
>
>
>>
>> Thx, R.
>>
>>> Colleagues,
>>>
>>> This e-mail is the start of a 2 week WG Last Call for
>>> draft-ietf-l3vpn-mvpn-wildcards-00.
>>>
>>> Please read the draft and provide any comments you may have.
>>>
>>> Feedback should be provided to the mailing list and/or the
>>> authors.
>>>
>>> Last Call ends at midnight PST on the 20th December.
>>>
>>> Thanks Ben
>>>
>>
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