On 20/10/2013, at 3:51 AM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you go back to my original message on this topic, the issue was > that in many organizations, for better or worse, they measure your > productivity by the amount of author credit you get, which is why we > see scientific papers with 50 or more co-authors. We're not publishing academic papers here, we're creating Internet Standards. If a spec doesn't have enough market demand to have someone pony up WG chair resources to help it through the process, maybe that should tell us something. Playing devil's advocate, you understand. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/