Bob Braden wrote:
*>
*> I am concerned that the current RFC Editor practice that limits the
*> number of authors is in conflict with the IETF IPR policies. The RFC
*> Editor currently limits the author count to five people. Recent IPR
*> WG discussions make it clear to me that authors retain significant copyright.
Note that the number 5 is not magic here. When the phenomenon of
balooning lists of authors (say, one or more from every telecom vendor
you ever heard of) was first noticed, there was a discussion on the
IETF list. The community consensus was that author list inflation was
"un-IETF". I don't recall the details (there may have been a last call
from the IESG, but I am not sure), but it was left to the RFC Editor to
formulate the precise guideline.
The Last Call on draft-rfc-editor-author-lists was issued on May 20,
2002, and the IESG approved that document on August 27, 2002, according
to the tracker:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=view_id&dTag=8778&rfc_flag=0
On Jan 3, 2005, it was marked "dead" based on the fact that the text had
been incorporated into the 2223bis draft.
So it's been almost 4 years since IETF consensus was declared for this
policy.
Harald
_______________________________________________
Ietf@xxxxxxxx
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf