> I would be fine with the document Shepherd, WG Chair, and sponsoring AD > being listed in documents as long as it was not too prominent near the end > and only the Authors/Editors are listed on the front page. But they > shouldn't > be labeled as a "contributor" unless they actually made a technical > contribution. Being listed as a contributor has IPR implications. Allowing your name to be listed can be taken as a kind of endorsement. (That's why we wanted McCahill to RFC 1738. Demonstrating endorsement of www by the main gopher guy.) What good would knowing the sponsoring AD's name do? As a "who can I blame?" piece of metadata? After the RFC is published, what good is that? -- https://LarryMasinter.net https://interlisp.org
