> For whatever it is worth, that model is fairly close to the one > that Jon Postel preferred for many years. I'm sure that over the years, many participants in the world of RFCs have held many different preferences on this topic, as for all others. However the running code of RFCs has regularly demonstrated multiple authors for RFCs and essentially from the beginning, starting with RFC 31 and RFC 44... Also, to the extent the current effort cares about prior treatments of the question of author vs. editor, please take a look at a rather more recent bit of text that went through IETF approval: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7221#section-3 d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net