Oh, I went through about ten terms instead of "Authors" to try and cover the range of authorship, ownership, and advocacy of people being responsible for BIP without implying that they necessarily were part of the people that wrote the document, only to end up using Authors again in the end, because each and everyone got picked apart.

Murch

AMA: BIP3 and proposed changes to the BIP Process

I spend a lot of time on attempts trying to define the scope of the BIPs repository and found it infeasible. There are a number of things that I find obviously off-topic, and a number that are clearly on-topic, but trying to definitely characterize what is in and what is out eluded me.