I'm going to put 'retired' as affiliation in all my drafts. It will save time on editing come publication. Lloyd Wood http://about.me/lloydwood ________________________________________ From: ietf <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> on behalf of Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, 22 October 2015 11:21 PM To: John C Klensin; IETF Discussion Subject: Re: 'retired' in Organization in xml for Internet Draft? Le 20/10/2015 18:00, John C Klensin a écrit : > > > --On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 16:44 +0200 Alexandre Petrescu > <alexandre.petrescu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Is it unreasonable to have 'retired' in the Organization name >> of an author of Internet Draft? > > While an RFC might be a different matter and, even there, some > of us with no affiliations relevant to the IETF don't list one, > why do you think anyone should care what someone else puts in > the that field of an I-D, at least as long as it is truthful? Why do I think someone should care? YEs it is truthful, but I have never seen 'retired'. I did see 'Independent' and 'Daydreamer'. Maybe readers should not care. Alex > > john > > > > >