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[Rswg] Re: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-rswg-authoring-ethics-00.txt

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 22 April 2026 03:22 UTC

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On 22-Apr-26 11:29, Rob Sayre wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Listing the author as "IAB" is incredibly inconsistent. I do not think this is a problem worth fixing. 

We're certainly not going to fix the past. But mistakes of the past may help us make policy for the future.

> I knew to look, because I raised the issue at some point in the last few years.
> 
> If you look at
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9896 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9896>
> 
> you'll find it obsoletes
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7996 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7996>
> 
> which is on the IAB stream.

Sure. The IETF has to be very careful about what "obsoletes" and "updates" mean for normative documents. The other streams, not so much.
  
> Maybe the lesson is "stop messing with the process".

Well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, but if it *is* broke...?

    Brian

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