Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR
"Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Wed, 24 May 2006 20:05 UTC
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From: "Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR
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On Wed, 24 May 2006, Bob Braden wrote: > > *> > *> I am concerned that the current RFC Editor practice that limits the > *> number of authors is in conflict with the IETF IPR policies. The RFC > *> Editor currently limits the author count to five people. Recent IPR > *> WG discussions make it clear to me that authors retain significant copyright. > > > Note that the number 5 is not magic here. When the phenomenon of > balooning lists of authors (say, one or more from every telecom vendor > you ever heard of) was first noticed, there was a discussion on the > IETF list. The community consensus was that author list inflation was > "un-IETF". I don't recall the details (there may have been a last call > from the IESG, but I am not sure), but it was left to the RFC Editor to > formulate the precise guideline. Five seemed like a reasonable limit. > Do you like 6 better? > > We do tend to push back (via the WG chairs) a bit on more than 5 > authors, since we knew that if there were many exceptions granted, > everyone would discover they needed an exception, defeating the purpose > of the limitation. We have found that almost everyone affected by > the limit has understood the problem and been very cooperative in > keeping to it. > > I do not recall the IPR issue raised before. a little history: 28 authors! http://www.arkko.com/tools/rfcstats/authdistr.html 20 authors! http://www.arkko.com/tools/stats/authdistr.html Bob - I think the 5 author rule applies to the listing in the ID/RFC header and not to the authors listed under "Author Information" - is that correct? - lel > Bob Braden for the RFC Editor > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > -- Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing Center University of Oregon llynch @darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-1774 _______________________________________________ Techspec mailing list Techspec@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/techspec
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Masataka Ohta
- [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Russ Housley
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Sam Hartman
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Russ Housley
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Sam Hartman
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Bob Braden
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Russ Housley
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Bob Braden
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Sam Hartman
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Sam Hartman
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Bob Braden
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Vijay Devarapallli
- [Techspec] RE: RFC Author Count and IPR David Harrington
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Ken Raeburn
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Henning Schulzrinne
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Vijay Devarapallli
- [Techspec] RE: RFC Author Count and IPR Gray, Eric
- [Techspec] RE: RFC Author Count and IPR Gray, Eric
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Andy Bierman
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Lucy E. Lynch
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Bob Braden
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Bob Braden
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Lucy E. Lynch
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Bob Braden
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Lucy E. Lynch
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Bob Braden
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Lucy E. Lynch
- [Techspec] Tracking IPR (Re: RFC Author Count and… Harald Alvestrand
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Harald Alvestrand
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Harald Alvestrand
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR John Loughney
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Lucy E. Lynch
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Lucy E. Lynch
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR Bob Braden
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR todd glassey
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR bmanning
- Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR todd glassey
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Bill Fenner
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Dave Crocker
- [Techspec] Re: RFC Author Count and IPR Jeffrey Hutzelman