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Re: [rfc-i] author/organization = "unaffiliated"?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 06 November 2019 08:20 UTC

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On Nov 6, 2019, at 09:17, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> If an author cannot or will not provide an affiliation for any
>>   reason, "Independent", "Individual Contributor", "Retired", or some
>>   other term that appropriately describes the author's affiliation may
>>   be used.  Alternatively, a blank line may be included in the document
>>   header when no affiliation is provided.
> 
> So we have already text there; maybe it should just mention that not
> specifying an affiliation is perfectly fine.

You are right, the wording puts less preference on the blank affiliation than is probably desired — that should be the normal situation, indeed, and not just an “alternative”.

Grüße, Carsten

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