The list of authors does not add value to the bgpd manual page.
So I think it is better to just drop them. With this the list of RFCs
becomes shorter and is easier to read.

-- 
:wq Claudio

Index: bgpd.8
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RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/bgpd/bgpd.8,v
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 .Xr bgplgsh 8
 .Sh STANDARDS
 .Rs
-.%A R. Chandra
-.%A P. Traina
-.%A "T. Li"
 .%D August 1996
 .%R RFC 1997
 .%T BGP Communities Attribute
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A A. Heffernan
 .%D August 1998
 .%R RFC 2385
 .%T Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signature Option
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A P. Marques
-.%A F. Dupont
 .%D March 1999
 .%R RFC 2545
 .%T Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A E. Chen
 .%D September 2000
 .%R RFC 2918
 .%T Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A G. Huston
 .%D April 2004
 .%R RFC 3765
 .%T NOPEER Community for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Scope Control
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A Y. Rekhter
-.%A "T. Li"
-.%A S. Hares
 .%D January 2006
 .%R RFC 4271
 .%T A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A S. Sangli
-.%A D. Tappan
-.%A Y. Rekhter
 .%D February 2006
 .%R RFC 4360
 .%T BGP Extended Communities Attribute
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A E. Rosen
-.%A Y. Rekhter
 .%D February 2006
 .%R RFC 4364
 .%T BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A T. Bates
-.%A E. Chen
-.%A R. Chandra
 .%D April 2006
 .%R RFC 4456
 .%T "BGP Route Reflection: An Alternative to Full Mesh Internal BGP (IBGP)"
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A E. Chen
-.%A V. Gillet
 .%D April 2006
 .%R RFC 4486
 .%T Subcodes for BGP Cease Notification Message
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A S. Sangli
-.%A E. Chen
-.%A R. Fernando
-.%A J. Scudder
-.%A Y. Rekhter
 .%D January 2007
 .%R RFC 4724
 .%T Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A T. Bates
-.%A R. Chandra
-.%A D. Katz
-.%A Y. Rekhter
 .%D January 2007
 .%R RFC 4760
 .%T Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A V. Gill
-.%A J. Heasley
-.%A D. Meyer
-.%A P. Savola
-.%A C. Pignataro
 .%D October 2007
 .%R RFC 5082
 .%T The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM)
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A J. Scudder
-.%A R. Chandra
 .%D February 2009
 .%R RFC 5492
 .%T Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A Y. Rekhter
-.%A S. Sangli
-.%A D. Tappan
 .%D October 2009
 .%R RFC 5668
 .%T 4-Octet AS Specific BGP Extended Community
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A E. Chen
-.%A J. Yuan
 .%D June 2011
 .%R RFC 6286
 .%T Autonomous-System-Wide Unique BGP Identifier for BGP-4
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A J. Dong
-.%A M. Chen
-.%A A. Suryanarayana
 .%D May 2012
 .%R RFC 6608
 .%T Subcodes for BGP Finite State Machine Error
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A Q. Vohra
-.%A E. Chen
 .%D Dec 2012
 .%R RFC 6793
 .%T BGP Support for Four-Octet Autonomous System (AS) Number Space
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A E. Chen
-.%A J. Scudder
-.%A P. Mohapatra
-.%A K. Patel
 .%D August 2015
 .%R RFC 7606
 .%T Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A L. Blunk
-.%A M. Karir
-.%A C. Labovitz
 .%D October 2011
 .%R RFC 6396
 .%T Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) Routing Information Export Format
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A J. Dong
-.%A M. Chen
-.%A A. Suryanarayana
 .%D May 2012
 .%R RFC 6608
 .%T Subcodes for BGP Finite State Machine Error
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A K. Patel
-.%A E. Chen
-.%A B. Venkatachalapathy
 .%D July 2014
 .%R RFC 7313
 .%T Enhanced Route Refresh Capability for BGP-4
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A W. Kumari
-.%A R. Bush
-.%A H. Schiller
-.%A K. Patel
 .%D August 2015
 .%R RFC 7607
 .%T Codification of AS 0 Processing
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A D. Walton
-.%A A. Retana
-.%A E. Chen
-.%A J. Scudder
 .%D July 2016
 .%R RFC 7911
 .%T Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A E. Jasinska
-.%A N. Hilliard
-.%A R. Raszuk
-.%A N. Bakker
 .%D September 2016
 .%R RFC 7947
 .%T Internet Exchange BGP Route Server
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A C. Petrie
-.%A T. King
 .%D May 2017
 .%R RFC 8050
 .%T Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit (MRT) Routing Information Export Format with BGP Additional Path Extensions
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A J. Heitz
-.%A J. Snijders
-.%A K. Patel
-.%A I. Bagdonas
-.%A N. Hilliard
 .%D February 2017
 .%R RFC 8092
 .%T BGP Large Communities Attribute
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A P. Mohapatra
-.%A K. Patel
-.%A J. Scudder
-.%A D. Ward
-.%A R. Bush
 .%D March 2017
 .%R RFC 8097
 .%T BGP Prefix Origin Validation State Extended Community
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A J. Snijders
-.%A J. Heitz
-.%A J. Scudder
 .%D July 2017
 .%R RFC 8203
 .%T BGP Administrative Shutdown Communication
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A R. Bush
-.%A R. Austein
 .%D September 2017
 .%R RFC 8210
 .%T The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to Router Protocol, Version 1
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A J. Mauch
-.%A J. Snijders
-.%A G. Hankins
 .%D July 2017
 .%R RFC 8212
 .%T Default External BGP (EBGP) Route Propagation Behavior without Policies
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A P. Francois
-.%A B. Decraene
-.%A C. Pelsser
-.%A K. Patel
-.%A C. Filsfils
 .%D March 2018
 .%R RFC 8326
 .%T Graceful BGP Session Shutdown
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A K. Patel
-.%A R. Fernando
-.%A J. Scudder
-.%A J. Haas
 .%D March 2019
 .%R RFC 8538
 .%T Notification Message Support for BGP Graceful Restart
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A R. Bush
-.%A K. Patel
-.%A D. Ward
 .%D October 2019
 .%R RFC 8654
 .%T Extended Message Support for BGP
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A S. Litkowski
-.%A S. Agrawal
-.%A K. Ananthamurthy
-.%A K. Patel
 .%D November 2020
 .%R RFC 8950
 .%T Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) with an IPv6 Next Hop
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A C. Loibl
-.%A S. Hares
-.%A R. Raszuk
-.%A D. McPherson
-.%A M. Bacher
 .%D December 2020
 .%R RFC 8955
 .%T Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A C. Loibl
-.%A R. Raszuk
-.%A S. Hares
 .%D December 2020
 .%R RFC 8956
 .%T Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A E. Chen
-.%A J. Scudder
 .%D July 2021
 .%R RFC 9072
 .%T Extended Optional Parameters Length for BGP OPEN Message
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A A. Azimov
-.%A E. Bogomazov
-.%A R. Bush
-.%A K. Patel
-.%A K. Sriram
 .%D May 2022
 .%R RFC 9234
 .%T Route Leak Prevention and Detection Using Roles in UPDATE and OPEN Messages
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A J. Snijders
-.%A B. Cartwright-Cox
-.%A Y. Qu
 .%D November 2024
 .%R RFC 9687
 .%T Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) Send Hold Timer
 .Re
 .Pp
 .Rs
-.%A A. Azimov
-.%A E. Bogomazov
-.%A R. Bush
-.%A K. Patel
-.%A J. Snijders
-.%A K. Sriram
 .%D October 2022
 .%R draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-verification
 .%T BGP AS_PATH Verification Based on Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Autonomous System Provider Authorization (ASPA) Objects