Thanks, Les, that is a perfectly good explanation.

Ben.

> On Dec 19, 2018, at 10:26 PM, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Ben -
> 
> When Errata ID: 5293 was posted we quickly realized that we had an 
> interoperability issue due to the unintended ambiguousness of RFC 7810. In 
> order to help resolve this ASAP I volunteered to be editor of a bis version. 
> In that role I have tried my best to move this document along as quickly as 
> possible to help reduce the possibility that additional implementations might 
> come along that also did not behave as intended. (Has only taken 9 months so 
> far. :-) )
> 
> Given I was not one of the original authors of RFC 7810 - and that we were 
> not making any substantive revision to the text - merely correcting what was 
> just a cut and paste error -  I did not feel it appropriate to remove any of 
> the authors of RFC 7810. After all 98% of the text is identical to RFC 7810.
> 
> So, you have 6 authors on this document. I think this is reasonable under the 
> circumstances.
> 
>   Les
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ben Campbell <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 3:51 PM
>> To: The IESG <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]; Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)
>> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; Ketan
>> Talaulikar (ketant) <[email protected]>; [email protected]
>> Subject: Ben Campbell's No Objection on draft-ietf-lsr-isis-rfc7810bis-04:
>> (with COMMENT)
>> 
>> Ben Campbell has entered the following ballot position for
>> draft-ietf-lsr-isis-rfc7810bis-04: No Objection
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> COMMENT:
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Why does this need to least more than the usual 5 authors, especially since
>> there is already a contributors section that says the entries should be 
>> treated
>> as co-authors?
>> 
> 

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