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Re: [irsg] Support (as co-author)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 29 November 2019 06:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [irsg] Support (as co-author)
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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On Nov 26, 2019, at 17:31, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My take on this is that having one’s name as an author is implicitly a sign of support.   No need to state it on the list in an adoption call.   If you don’t support it, you should ask that your name be removed.
> 
> Isn’t this the reason we see drafts with long author lists?
> 
> Relating to this, I think that someone should only be listed as an author if they have written words in the document.   I dislike the trend to listing names of people as authors who have not contributed to the text.

Others have already commented about the reality of these things.

The rules need to be made to work with what actually happens, not with what we believe should happen.

https://social-biz.org/2008/05/25/process-confabulation/

(There is a strong tendency towards process confabulation in many discussions about IETF processes; maybe all process geeks who are not familiar with this phenomenon should look it up.)

Grüße, Carsten

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