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

[Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>]

Hi Dave,

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, David Allan wrote:

> You are offering a compelling argument to eliminate crediting of any authors
> on I-Ds etc.

Entirely orthogonal.  Every ID is given weight 1, independent of where
it came from, who the authors are or even how many authors there are.
If the ID came from a design team chosen by the WG chairs, by the ADs,
even by the IETF chair himself, the weight is still 1.

> 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.

If there are too many authors, they become contributors.  Simple.
No fuss, no mess, no struggle.  The main reason (I believe) is to
scale the RFC Editor process.

(To repeat, this is completely unrelated to the argument at hand,
viz., should liaisons and IDs from other SDOs have more weight than
individual submissions.)

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

You're the only one (so far) to see this as an inconsistency.  But
I'd rather not go down this (rathole) until we have settled more
important issues.

Kireeti.