> Are you trying to tell me that somebody can publish a draft, and then > "let it expire" just because they don't like the changes that other > people suggest? Does the author get veto power over improvements > that a working group agrees to? there are two separate issues here: it seems to me that an author really does have the right to just let a draft expire if he/she cannot get folks to agree that his/her solution (and expression of that solution) to whatever problem is the right way to go. we certainly cannot force the author to modify the document to suit someone else's tastes (especially when they're wrong!). nor can we expect the author to accept publication of the document with an implict "rejected" stamp. on the other hand, in my mind publication of an internet-draft is implicitly granting the right to others in the community to use and tweak those ideas in other proposals (with the possible exception of I-Ds with the restricted boilerplate option), and perhaps even to make derivative works from the original draft. the original author's wishes should be respected regarding the granting of credit - whether he/she wants co-authorship, an explicit acknowledgement, or to disclaim it entirely. Keith
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- Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft ... Bill Manning
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