[WSIS CS-Plenary] authors of issue papers

[avri at acm.org]

Hi,

I believe Vittorio is right about the reason for there not being 
specific author lists.  It would be very difficult on many of the 
papers to list everyone who contributed a paragraph or more.  Or 
rather, on some, it could look almost like a list of all of the WGIG 
members.

Most papers, however, did have someone doing editing, or perhaps more 
properly copy editing - i.e. collecting the words of others and trying 
to fit them into a coherent report that covered as many of the content 
expressions as possible.  Perhaps, these names could have been listed, 
but I think that was considered too much an act of making someone a 
designated focal point for a topic and that it, perhaps, risked making 
them somehow appear to be 'the' author and perhaps more equal.


a.


On 4 feb 2005, at 05.37, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> Il giorno ven, 04-02-2005 alle 13:01 +0100, Jeanette Hofmann ha 
> scritto:
>>> It would also be helpful to know who the authors of these papers are.
>>
>> I have been wondering about the authorship too.
>>>
>> It appears that quite a few people know who wrote or co-authored which
>> paper.
>> The authorship seems not to be secrete information. So why are no 
>> names
>> attached to the papers?
>
> AFAIK, the papers are meant to be group releases (and, in fact, some of
> them are actually the result of contributions by a lot of members, 
> while
> others instead were the result of a single individual's work, with at
> most a few edits here and there by a couple of other members).
>
> This (to answer another question) is exactly why the reason why
> intellectual property is not there yet - the paper (or, better, the
> issue) was so controversial that some members of the group totally
> objected to its publication, so a short summary prepared by the
> Secretariat will be posted instead.
> -- 
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