*> From ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx Wed May 24 12:46:43 2006
*> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
Spencer Dawkins wrote:
*> People can tell me that I've been misleading WG chairs and editors, but what
*> I've been saying in the WG Leadership tutorial is that the 5-author limit
*> resulted from
*>
*> - the practice of contacting authors at AUTH48, only to find out that more
*> authors increase the likelihood of job changes and/or e-mail bounces, plus
*>
No. The practice of contacting all authors was a RESULT of the author
limitation and the desire to prevent vanity publishing.
*> - several "dog-pile" author lists on drafts with a huge number of authors,
*> leading us to suspect that this was an effort to demonstrate "support" from
*> a large group of vendors ("so this should be a WG draft and WGLCed
*> immediately"), plus
*>
YES! This was the major motivation. Augmented by the concept that the
IETF is about individuals, not about corporations.
*> - text formatting software that "broke" when the author list wouldn't fit on
*> one page because there were so many authors.
*>
No. What is true is that the historical format of the first page gets
kinda ugly with a large list of authors. This was certainly not the
gating concern, however.
Bob Braden
*> But I'm still thinking...
*>
*> Thanks,
*>
*> Spencer
*>
*>
*>
*> _______________________________________________
*> Ietf mailing list
*> Ietf@xxxxxxxx
*> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
*>
_______________________________________________
Ietf@xxxxxxxx
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf