On Mar 25, 2013, at 12:14 AM, Carsten Bormann <c...@tzi.org> wrote: >> Further, the IETF should acknowledge that the contents of Acknowledgments >> sections varies widely between RFCs. Some are fairly complete, some are >> fairly vague and incomplete, and some are between. > > Bingo. It is up to the sole discretion of the document authors what they > want to list in the Acknowledgements section.
+/- 0. For personal documents, it is up to the author; for WG documents, it is up to the WG. Some WGs are acknowledgment-heavy, some are not. I have been in WGs which used "you might get listed in the Acknowledgements" as a tool to get better reviews. It seemed cheesy, but it worked. > The contents of the Acknowledgment section is about as much subject to WG > consensus as the authors' street addresses. Disagree. WG documents are WG documents. If the author/editor doesn't want to do what the WG consensus is about the document, the author/editor can walk away. --Paul Hoffman
