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I-D ACTION:draft-andersson-mpls-g-chng-proc-00.txt

  • From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@fictitious.org>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:55:21 -0500
  • cc: "'Alex Zinin'" <zinin@psg.com>, Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>, Stephen Trowbridge <sjtrowbridge@lucent.com>, ccamp@ops.ietf.org, mpls@UU.NET


In message <FFFC48AEAA5F7447929F4F0D93FCC12D016D2AAB@zcard031.ca.nortel.com>, "
David Allan" writes:
> 
> Alex:
> 
> You are offering a compelling argument to eliminate crediting of any authors
> on I-Ds etc. We can claim that there is no weight in a consensus based
> organization, while we struggle to eliminate the practice of 20 plus authors
> on a draft.

The author list was never supposed to be a factor in evaluating an i-d
so its just an indication that the authors don't get it.  Particularly
when it becomes obvious that some of the "authors" have never read the
draft.

> I would assume I'm not the only one to note this inconsistency.

I wouldn't call it an inconsistency.  Just a reflection that the real
authors did not understand that the process didn't consider the author
list to be a factor in evaluation.

> Cheers
> Dave

Curtis