Re: rfc-ed reference style [Re: Last Call:Instructions to Request for Comments (RFC) Authors to BCP]

[John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>]

--On Tuesday, 18 March, 2003 00:06 +0200 Pekka Savola
<pekkas@netcore.fi> wrote:

>> >>    [10] Eastlake, D. and E. Panitz, "Reserved Top Level
>> >>    DNS Names", RFC 2606, June 1999.
>> >> ==> hopefully this isn't the reference practise, should
>> >> be s/E. Panitz/Panitz, E./, right?
> 
> I have a problem of writing the author list as "Eastlake,
> D., and E.   Panitz", rather than "Eastlake, D., and Panitz,
> E."

Nope, I understood that was your concern.  It is a valid form
according to several style manuals.  The rest of my note was
an attempt to explain why.

    john