Hello Brian,
Thanks for the actual example. The two Bing Liu may have the same
Chinese characters in their names, or they may not. There are usually
many characters for the same Pinyin base letters, and Bing and Liu are
no exception. Of course, not all of these characters are used in names.
One or both of the names may even have different tones (in which case
they most likely have different characters). The only way to find out is
to ask them. As you have coauthored at least a draft with one of them
(see
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-carpenter-anima-grasp-bulk/),
could you ask him (or her)?
Regards, Martin.
On 2025-11-04 06:17, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
Again stripping this to one point:
On 03-Nov-25 20:03, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
Having two authors named John Smith isn't an ideal situation, but I'm
sure the authors and the RPC would be able to handle this, if it ever
comes up.
There are two RFC authors called Bing Liu, both employed by Huawei.
(Liu is the family name, Bing is the personal name.) They have the same
street address, too, because they work at the same site. They are
distinguished by their email addresses (which are distinguished by
their adopted Latin personal names). See [RFC8990, RFC9354].
One gotcha: there is no way to tell from the RFC index that these
are two different authors. If you used the index to count the number
of RFCs by B. Liu, you would get a misleading answer. Should the RPC
do something about that? (This is not an RSWG policy question.)
The IETF datatracker also has two separate profiles for them,
distinguished by their email addresses.
Unfortunately I don't have their names in Chinese characters, but
I expect they are identical.
Brian
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