# Re: URC-Authors section

Michael Mealling (ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu)
Mon, 11 Jul 1994 17:36:57 -0400 (EDT)

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    From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)

    Message-Id: <199407112136.AA14464@oit.gatech.edu>

    Subject: Re: URC-Authors section

    To: dupuy@smarts.com (Alexander Dupuy)

    Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 17:36:57 -0400 (EDT)

    In-Reply-To: <9407112111.AA07125@just.smarts.com> from "Alexander Dupuy" at Jul 11, 94 05:11:21 pm

Alexander Dupuy said this:
> > o Author:
> > This pair will encode the name of the Author(s) of a given document or
> > resource. Since many cultures have different ways of writing names,
> > the standard name representation should be that the first element of
> > the value should be the first element of the name to be parsed for
> > sorting purposes, the second element of the name should be the
> > second element to be parsed, and so on.
>
> > Comments?
>
> This certainly seems like an extremely reasonable approach, and is pretty much
> the same as what I thought of when I saw your original post. I did like the
> suggestion that somebody else made (sorry, don't remember exactly who) that
> the author field include an e-mail address. You probably don't want to be
> sorting on those, so it might be worth specifying the syntax by which e-mail
> addresses would be included and noting that they should be ignored for sorting
> purposes.
>
> Alternately, you could have a separate Contact: URC section which would be
> just for e-mail/postal/whatever addresses. I think this is probably
> preferable to specifying sorting/non-sorting subcomponents of the Author:
> field.

The problem with the Contact is that you break the binding twist the
author and his/her e-mail address. Instead you could use the above method
and just say that anything twixt < and > can be ignored for sorting
purposes.

If anyone can come up with a good wording I'll incorporate it into the current
draft and bring it along as an addition in Toronto.

(The list of co-authors begins to grow...and Grow...and GROW! ;-)
-MM

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