On 3/4/09 1:42 PM, "Marc Petit-Huguenin" <petithug@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I assumed that acknowledgement would be a good enough incentive for > developers to contribute early implementations, but you seem to > think that there would be other reasons. Right. My experience has been that people will work on a protocol because it's necessary for work, or a personal project (academic), or some other reason than they're looking for acknowledgement. I'm a little startled, frankly, to hear that people are implementing internet drafts to get their name out there, or that they're doing early implementations without participating in the working group. How common is this? I think this proposal is generally a very bad idea but if there's a genuine problem with inadequate incentives for implementation hopefully that's something that can be dealt with as a process issue rather than a document issue. I'd be curious to see some evidence that there's a more general problem here. Melinda _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf