[infod-wg] Publishing the document

Dieter Gawlick dieter.gawlick at oracle.com
Wed Jun 28 07:28:58 CDT 2006


Norman,

We have the same rule. Thank you with for the support

Dieter

Norman Paton wrote:
>
> Just in case it helps...  The DAIS-WG specifications have recently 
> entered the recommendation process, all with more than three authors.  
> The rule in DAIS was that anyone who made a sustained contribution to 
> a specification became an author.  This tended to mean that authors 
> made a concrete contribution over a substantial period (i.e. you 
> wouldn't be made an author for contributing at a single GGF, but once 
> you had made a sustained contribution, this would continue to be 
> recognised through authorship even if your contribution was less 
> towards the end).  Just to give an opinion - any rule that involves a 
> fixed number of authors is silly, and any rule that involves a fixed 
> number of authors that is only periodically enforced is much worse 
> than that!
>
> Regards, Norman
>
>
> Dieter Gawlick wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Before we publish the document we have to do a little bit of cleanup. 
>> Most of it is technical and I can just do it.
>>
>> There is one issue which is more difficult for me. We can only have 
>> three authors, everyone else is a contributor.
>>
>> I like everyone to nominate by tomorrow up to three people you like 
>> to nominate as author. Author one gets three points, author 2 gets 2 
>> points, and number three gets one point.
>>
>> Please send me an e-mail with your ranking.
>>
>> Deadline is Wednesday, June 28 @ 6 pm PDT.
>>
>> Dieter
>>
>>
>





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