Re: How IETF treats contributors

On 31 Aug 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:

> here's what happened.  one day i was walking down the net minding my own
> business, when all of a sudden, the following message appeared in my inbox:
> 
>         Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 23:44:54 -0500 (EST)
>         From: Jim Miller <jmiller@jcmco.com>
>         To: paul@vix.com
>         Subject: An idea & congrats on RBL
> 
>         Mr. Vixie,
> 
>         ...

This is a personal message, and doesn't qualify as being published. You
mentioned that you failed to follow up.  That may be true. And that's why
you shouldn't be credited for originating the idea, and why David Green
and later Hadmut Danisch should be credited.  They did the work, and
unlike you, took it to the IETF, and published it first.  What you did in
secret is irrelevant. You should have published it.

> no mention of david green. 

That's just your oversight.  However, the Namedroppers archives show that
you __replied__ to Green's proposal. He was __first__ to publish.  Maybe
you had Miller's draft in the wings since 1997. But you didn't get it it
first.

		--Dean

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