Re: [Xml-sg-cmt] contact element

[John R Levine <[e-mail]>]

Seems reasonable to me, too. Do we need more of a writeup?


On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> On 8/4/21 4:32 PM, Sandy Ginoza wrote:
>> Hi Peter, John,
>>
>>> Did you two ever get a chance to write this up?
>>
>> Finally getting back to this - sorry for the delay.  This is a
>> clarification of item 2 on
>> <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rse/wiki/doku.php?id=v3_guidance_received
>> <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rse/wiki/doku.php?id=v3_guidance_received>>
>> and an attempt at building on Peter’s strawman text regarding how
>> <contact> should be used. 
??>
>> The following is based on how <contact> has been used in recent pubs
>> from each stream. 
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>> <contact> is recommended for the following:
>>
>>   *
>>     names mentioned in the Acknowledgments and Contributors sections of
>>     documents.
??>     (not typically used for author names of draft itself, e.g., Author A
>>     would like to thank…)
>>   *
>>     individual names in the IANA registrations (e.g., contacts).
>>   *
>>     IAB members, workshop participants, and the program committee.
>>     (not a list of names under position papers, as that is really about
>>     the referenced doc)
>>   *
>>     wherever needed to render names/organizations with
>>     non-ASCII characters correctly
>>
>> The RPC will not proactively add the <contact> element to a document
>> outside of the areas listed above, but authors are welcome to do so.
>
> The foregoing seems reasonable to me.
>
>> The IAB workshop participants and program committee got thrown in
>> because they usually contain one or more names with non-ASCII chars, so
>> it seemed like we should use <contact> consistently within the section.
>>  Based on the discussion below, would participants and committee members
>> fall into the last category, where <contact> is only added where needed
>> to display non-ASCII chars?
>
> It seems to me that the number of participants and committee members
> tends to be fairly small (on the order of ~20 at most) and IAB workshop
> RFCs are published relatively infrequently, so structuring them all via
> the <contact> element is not onerous. But YMMV.
>
> Peter
>
>

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