Hi, There are a lot of changes in this, and considerable re-ordering, so I'm afraid the diffs won't be much help. Please read the whole thing before the next round of comments. I tried to respond to all the comments made, but have certainly failed to do so.
The list of changes is: Removed the word "ethics" from the document title Adjusted scope such that each stream may explicitly accept these guidelines and define exceptions and variations Stated that IPR is out of scope. Added statement that the Editorial stream will apply these guidelines Stated that the list of authors and editors will be determined by the RFC stream Reordered several sections for clarity Moved text about author withdrawal to the Exceptions section Mentioned removal of authors in the Disputes section Made author/editor responsibility more explicit Made lack of contributor responsibility more explicit Generalised requirement to acknowledge copying from other RFCs (previously only stated for AI, which was silly) Generalised plagiarism rule (ditto) Re-ordered bullets about AI usage Added brief justification for AI disclosure, and marked it as an open issue Brian -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-rswg-authoring-ethics-03.txt Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:44:31 -0700 From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Internet-Draft draft-carpenter-rswg-authoring-ethics-03.txt is now available. Title: Guidelines for Assignment of RFC Authorship Author: Brian E. Carpenter Name: draft-carpenter-rswg-authoring-ethics-03.txt Pages: 14 Dates: 2026-06-04 Abstract: This document describes ethical guidelines for assigning authorship in RFC documents, including guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence during document preparation, and for inclusion of material from other documents. It also discusses the related issues of acknowledgements, editors and contributors. The various RFC streams may apply these guidelines, or set their own guidelines, which will have priority. The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-carpenter-rswg-authoring-ethics/ There is also an HTML version available at: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-carpenter-rswg-authoring-ethics-03.html A diff from the previous version is available at: https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-carpenter-rswg-authoring-ethics-03 Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at: rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- rswg mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
