Hi Brian, this draft seems to assume you can have editors, or authors, but not a combination of those. The practice has been different, with people taking editorship roles on drafts that do have original authors which just have tried to extract themselves from the tedious wordsmithing consensus process. Do you argue for changing that practice? (As usual, I will be arguing for properly acknowledging authorship, as doing otherwise is non-inclusive for academics. E.g., RFC 3819 has done exactly the right thing.) Grüße, Carsten Brian E Carpenter wrote: > This is intended to frame the discussion we've been having. > Comments/criticisms welcome. > > Brian > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-whats-an-author-00.txt > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:33:25 -0700 > From: internet-drafts@xxxxxxxx > Reply-To: internet-drafts@xxxxxxxx > To: i-d-announce@xxxxxxxx > > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. > > > Title : What is an Author of an IETF Stream Draft? > Author : Brian Carpenter > Filename : draft-carpenter-whats-an-author-00.txt > Pages : 4 > Date : 2015-04-23 > > Abstract: > This draft suggests guidelines for assigning authorship in IETF > Internet-Drafts. It also discusses the related issues of named > contributors and acknowledgements. > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-carpenter-whats-an-author/ > > There's also a htmlized version available at: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-carpenter-whats-an-author-00 > > > Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission > until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. > > Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: > ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ > > _______________________________________________ > I-D-Announce mailing list > I-D-Announce@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce > Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html > or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt > > > >