[infod-wg] Publishing the document

[Norman Paton]

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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