> As we recycle 2461 and 2462 specifications I suggest that no additional > names be added to the authors names for two reasons.
I don't think such a rigid rule is appropriate. Authors/editors should be properly acknowledged for their work. If a new author/editor takes over an existing RFC, they should be given appropriate credit. As one of the authors on these drafts, I would assume that sharing the credits is a given, since I don't have the cycles to edit the documents myself. I think it's also a bit premature to be definitive about what the final authorship should be. When the revised document is closer to being done, at that point we can assess how much work was involved in the new version, who did that work, and what the best way to acknowledge it should be. > The current authors worked for many years and earned their names on > this spec. That may be true, but it is certainly also true that a lot of what is in the specs is a result of a lot of community input. If anyone looks at (say) ND and thinks I'm an "author" of that spec, I think that would be somewhat misleading. There was a real team effort behind that document. (Excuse me for a moment while I reminisce for a moment...) I also think it is also somewhat destructive to the IETF ideals to somehow assume that I (or any other author on a document) is author for life, no matter what happens. WG documents are supposed to be WG documents - reflecting the will of the WGs. They are not documents owned by authors. And as Jari has pointed out already, it's not uncommon for revisions of documents to end up with 75% new text. The original authors are hardly "authors" anymore in such cases. Folks might also want to have a look at section 2.12 draft-rfc-editor-rfc2223bis-07.txt. It talks specifically about a "contributers" section, which is intended to make it much more clear who the actual contributers are. That would be a fine place to mention the actually history of the document in more detail. I wish more documents took this approach. Thomas -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
