Brian, This document is long overdue, and I appreciate your tackling it. There are some additional issues that you should address explicitly, IMO. Some are discussed on various authorship guideline pages, such as: http://www.apa.org/research/responsible/publication/ IMO, it might be useful to cite a few of them as they help underscore that you're basically expecting our community to follow generally accepted best-practices for attribution. The issues I didn't yet see discussed: - including authorship for a key intellectual contribution, e.g., a mechanism, algorithm, etc. the doc currently focuses on written text, diagrams, and code, but there are contributions beyond that - excluding authorship primarily motivated by only: - funding support (giving author to a financial sponsor only because of their financial support) - placation (giving authorship as a "cookie" to gain consensus or overcome objection) - promotion (giving authorship to improve the credibility or reputation of the doc) - work or WG relationship (giving authorship to a supervisor, academic advisor, etc.) I do think the negative examples are important. Dancing around the issue doesn't help. Joe On 4/23/2015 9:49 PM, 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 > >