On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, John Curran wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2013, at 7:42 AM, Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > You mean the editors of this draft (I will note them as not > > acknowledging participants, for my future review). I am a MANET WG > > participants, but if you mention the names that made efforts it is > > more true because many are MANET participants and never send a > > comment. Please note that IETF mentioned, Request For Comments= RFC. I > > commented on the draft, and will only continue commenting on drafts > > that are edited and monitored by acknowledging IETF participants. > > ... > > It is non-sensical to expect document editors to track and list everybody > who had input on a given draft, particularly when one considers the volume > of comments received on many of the mailing lists and working groups. > > The "Acknowledgements section" has a long tradition of listing those folks > who provided substantial contributions to the document, and often has all > others by reference in a "members of the Foo working group" mention in that > section. > > In my opinion, it would be a shame for any IETF energies to be diverted for > the purposes of second-guessing the good faith efforts of document editors > by revisiting this tradition where we already have successful running code. Therefore, I would suggest that if someone feels they contributed and there is any evidence in blue sheets or mailing list comments, give them credit. I think the act of following the mailing list discussion w/o comment makes the contribution one of active review. So taking the time to offer comment rises to a level above that. Since working groups don't have membership, acknowledging all members of a WG is meaningless. There have been several recent long threads regarding how to encourage continued participation in the IETF. Acknowledgement of WG participation by 'name' is a small token to encourage future contributions, and I suspect for some employer funded participants, important in the justification of that funding. Dave Morris
