IPS: Number of Authors

[Black_David@emc.com]

Everyone,

The Internet-Draft with guidance on this issue has just appeared;
the announcement is forwarded below.  The IPS WG co-chairs
will implement these guidelines as follows:

WG Last Call will not be started for drafts that do not meet
the guidelines.  What this means is that:
- Drafts with 5 or less authors will enter WG Last Call without
	 a hitch.
- Drafts with more than 5 authors will be delayed and the
	draft authors should expect instructions to reduce author
	count to result.

For the current drafts in or approaching WG Last Call:
- FC Encapsulation.  This has completed WG Last Call.  It was
	the product of a 6 person design team, and the WG chairs
	will consult with the ADs about listing all 6 members of
	that team as authors.
- iFCP needs to reduce its author count.
- FCIP has already reduced its author count.
- iSCSI needs to reduce its author count.
Authors of all other drafts should consider themselves warned.

If a draft's author count cannot be reduced in an expeditious
fashion the WG Chairs may have to resort to instructing that
the draft list only the primary editor at the top of the first
page.

Thanks,
David Black and Elizabeth Rodriguez, IPS WG co-chairs


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Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-rfc-editor-author-lists-00.txt


A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
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	Title		: RFC Editor Guidelines on Author Lists
	Author(s)	: J. Reynolds, B. Braden
	Filename	: draft-rfc-editor-author-lists-00.txt
	Pages		: 6
	Date		: 09-May-02
	
This memo presents a new set of guidelines to govern lists of
authors on RFC documents.  It is intended to counteract a recent
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