On Aug 8, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Keith Moore <mo...@network-heretics.com> wrote: > Would being able to reliably know exactly who said everything that was said > in a WG meeting visibly improve the quality of our standards? If the answer > is not a clear "yes" (and I don't think it is) then I suggest that this topic > is a distraction.
If you mean will it improve what is written on the page, probably not. Will it decrease the likelihood of someone participating without identifying themself, and then violating the IPR rules? Possibly. AFAIK that's why we do it. Not so much because it is an iron-clad preventative, but because it to some degree removes the illusion of anonymity that might tempt someone to do something like that, or just be careless about it.
