The ID/tools already keep track of authors, as you say, when you submit a draft. But after that it appears to not expose that. What is required is that it expose this for all drafts. If you login, you should be able to confirm removing yourself from that ID entry. The other thing we could do is require that all authors/editors confirm posting instead of just having one confirm. The system does today for new postings, or postings with new/changed authors but only requires one to confirm. The one thing to consider in this case is that by putting your name on a draft, you implicitly acknowledge the IPR/Note Well terms on that draft. What if you do not but someone puts your name on there? Requiring everyone on a draft to explicitly confirm means they are there on purpose and really agree, and continue to for every iteration of the draft. --Tom > On Apr 21, 2015:8:13 AM, at 8:13 AM, Fred Baker (fred) <fred@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> On Apr 21, 2015, at 4:26 AM, Bernie Volz (volz) <volz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Be nice if the posting tool confirmed co-author(s) whenever a co-author(s) is "new" (all would be new for -00). This would require keeping a database of the drafts and co-authors. > > I’m not so sure it requires a database. It dos require the ability to read an existing draft. > > With a -00 draft, you could simply define the case - all authors have to confirm. With a successor draft, a “new" author is one that isn’t listed as an author on the previous version. We could continue to gild that lily by noting when authors are dropped, and enquiring of the dropped co-authors. > > That said, a database might make it simpler for the tools.