On 7/9/2015 4:05 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
> Interesting comment on the authoring. I believe that according to our
> own stated policies, it would be wrong to list the RSE as an Author. She
> did not write the words.
We list authors who did not 'write the words' all the time.
The policy I found is:
RFC Series Editor statement on authorship
http://www.rfc-editor.org/pipermail/rfc-interest/2015-May/008869.html
It has conflicting text.
The high-level policy text is:
"responsible for the technical content of the document"
which is entirely reasonable language and matches long-standing
practice, whereas the text you are presumably citing is:
"If the development of a document has been
delegated or subcontracted, the authors are the person(s) doing the
actual writing, not the person(s) delegating or subcontracting the work."
is not. I think we are demonstrating a basic problem with this latter,
arbitrary and overly-fine-grained rule.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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