On 5/21/05, Phil Ringnalda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Broyer wrote: > > The Atom Syndication Fformat spec has two authors and many contributors. > > Limiting to one author, you can't distinguish between the authors and > > contributors. > > Actually, no. It has one author, a "corporation, or similar entity," the > ATOMPUB Working Group, and two editors and many contributors. (Editorial > nit: -08 says it's a product of the Network Working Group, apparently > the xml2rfc default for <workgroup>).
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcfaq.html 2) Every RFC is attributed to the "Network Working Group". What working group is that? This label in the heading of every RFC is historical in form and symbolic in content. Historically, "network working group" meant the set of researchers who developed the packet switching protocols for the ARPAnet, beginning in 1969. This label is maintained on RFCs as a reminder of the long and significant technical history that is recorded in the RFC series, and as a reminder that today's technical decisions, wise or not, may be with us for many years. Today, the "Network Working Group" should be interpreted as the set of users, vendors, and researchers who are working to improve and extend the Internet, in particular under the ISOC/IETF umbrella. ------ Of course, the entity primarily responsible for the draft is the IETF, and the internet community. A theory: no one who thought IETF last call meant we were done is reading the list anymore, so all we have left are people intent on descending every rathole and continuing to work on the spec until it becomes a suitably ornate design-by-committee monster. Robert Sayre
